"2 AM Calling" Oil on Canvas

 Well this baby is finally done! It took a total of 7 hours to complete. It was actually the Hubby's gift last year but none of the shading  & glow was done on it cuz life got away from me and the oil paints sat waiting all year due to a commission mural that needed my spare time. Now it's time to get back to painting for my house lol and the 2012 xmas cow painting lol. For the record hubs is very hard to buy for but has a cow obcession much like my horse one, so all he ever asks for is a cow painting but he's easy to please that way. Other paintings coming I cant show till after xmas lol. I hope to have some better pics of the mural then too

a sampling of jewellry

This is the Jaguar Dreams piece I designed awhile ago. It is one of a kind with leopard jasper stones, green glass beads and sterling silver findings. The Jaguar centerpeice is sculpted and painted by myself out of Super sculpey clay. I wanted to give the illusion that he was just hanging out in the jungle vines. In the pics it looks like he's "eating" the vines but in reality they wrap around the back of his shoulder.

An annoucement & an update!

My apologies that I havent kept this blog up very well. All that is about to change though, as of June I will once again be home full time instead of always working off the farm. I will be starting my own buisness of which art will be a major part of it. Please ignore the date on the oil painting, it is actually the 2011 XMAS painting for hubby. This 6 hours progress and once it's dry I can add the light and shadows from the lantern. This was his special request that it be of him and his favorite cow, and that he be in his Carharrts lol. I plan to finish it when I get a free weekend but havent gotten to yet. The other pics are a custom job that was alot of fun to do- it's not everyday I get to paint something funny! The outhouse project was done in outdoor latex paints and took 4 hours to complete. It is at a family-and-freinds campground and gets alot of laughs