This was my opening demo for the online pastel workshop I'm currently giving for these three days. I saw this baby camel at a petting zoo somewhere, and as she was chewing some hay, her mouth had the cutest expression!
This painting will be with me at the Rockport Art Fest (July 3 and 4, 2021) located right on the beautiful coast of Texas. My first live art festival in over a year, yay!! Hope you can come out and enjoy the fun.
Watch a GIF and some progress pics of Carmel the camel here!
$305 includes frame and US shipping
Our neighborhood deer are popping out fawns like crazy the last week or so. I've seen one little one many mornings in our back yard. We've had a lot of rain so the grass really needs mowing!
Watch a speed video of Bambina's painting here!
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I painted this adorable baby donkey a few years ago ("Fuzz") but thought she deserved another go!
This time she was my subject for a demo for the Arizona Pastel Artists Association. They have the zoom video link on their website; check this page under Pastel Demonstrations and Presentations. I hadn't quite finished the demo at the time, so I finished at one of my Virtual Open Studio days, and will be sending that video to the APAA. They might put it up on their site too!
I just love my job, painting cute fuzzy animals! 😁
I had this one sketched out quite a while ago, but ended up changing the drawing when I decided to switch the two calves' positions from how they were in the original photo. The larger shadow area on the front calf's shoulder looked ever so much better behind the other calf, and set off her face nicely!
Enjoy a little slide show of progress pics Here!
"Bela et Blanche" will be part of my Solo Exhibition, Kindred Spirits, at the ARTS for Rural Texas in Fayetteville, March 27 - May 29, 2021. Opening Reception March 27, 5-7pm. Karen will be loading new images into the site for the next several days as I finish new paintings... check this page frequently to see the show online!
Here is Little Goat, from the second half of a Virtual Open Studio day (right after Little Bunny.)
Little Goat will also be a part of my Solo Exhibition, Kindred Spirits, at the ARTS for Rural Texas in Fayetteville, March 27 - May 29, 2021. Opening Reception March 27, 5-7pm.
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"Little Goat" $260 framed
I just finished two back-to-back 3-day online workshops. Whew! These were what I had been preparing for all these months since the pandemic started and my string of four east coast workshops turned in to two that agreed to stick with it and move to Zoom.
I created my Virtual Open Studio Days in part to "practice" my studio streaming setup in preparation for these two workshops. All the preparation sure paid off because they both went more smoothly than I had anticipated (Well, except for a few moments when Alexa interfered with the connection of my bluetoooth headset and I finally told her to turn off after I realized it was my headset trouble and not everyone else's mics... Ahh, the adventures of technology!)
This cute little "Gosling" was my opening demo for this week's workshop with the PSNC. He was one of the babies at Fry's Fun Farm a few years ago. I love that petting zoo, their baby animals are the best!
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