Don Keyfurry

 

"Don Keyfurry" (pastel, 8x8 inches) bid or buy here

 The star of my recent Donkey Paint-Along! For your enjoyment, here's a fun speed video!

Day 14 of 21-in-31: Don Key

 

Day 14 of 21-in-31: "Don Key" (pastel, 8x6 inches) Bid or buy at DailyPaintworks for a limited time

I'm still working on the paint-along video editing, but I wanted to share my Don Key finish with y'all. We had a fun time painting yesterday!

Of course, this will be counted as #14 in my 21-in-31 paintings for May! I did tweak just a couple little things after the paint-along, like the highlights on the neck and in the eyes.

See a quick speed video of "Don Key" here!

Day 17 of 30 - Don Keyote

 

 

"Don Keyote" (pastel, 10x10 inches)

I painted this funny face last week, but I took a good look at him and decided he needed a lot of reworking. I took him back to the studio for a couple of hours, and there you have it!

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See a few progress pics here!

Fuzzy Jenny (Warm Fuzzy #73)

 

Warm Fuzzy #73 - "Fuzzy Jenny" (pastel, 12x6 inches) buy here

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! 😁

Donna Keigh (Warm Fuzzy #71)

 

Warm Fuzzy #71 - "Donna Keigh" (pastel, 7x5 inches) $285

Here's another little warm fuzzy I painted last fall during an online workshop with the Winslow Art Center and never got around to posting.

See a fun GIF of the progression of the painting here!

Donna Keigh has just been added to my Solo Show at the ARTS for Rural Texas, Fayetteville. 

A percentage of the proceeds from the sales of the paintings will support the free programs provided by Arts for Rural Texas, a 501(C)(3) not for profit organization. Shop the exhibit online here.

Day 16 - Don Keysborough

"Don Keysborough" (pastel, 12x9 inches) on hold

Day 16 of my 31-in-31 of January 2020!

This one was a request for a 12x9 donkey of my choice. I love my clients!

Don Keysborogh is the latest in my "Don Key___" series, and happens to be named after a town in Australia, east of Melbourne.

Ezra (and the South Dakota workshop)

"Ezra" (pastel, 12x12 inches) sold

This sun-touched donkey was my opening demo for my workshop last month at the Abbey of the Hills in South Dakota.

This was as far as the morning demo got, then I finished Ezra (named by her buyer, one of my students) later in the week.

Here's my fantastic talented group of students. It was a great time and I hope to arrange another 5-day Pastel Workshop Retreat at the Abbey again in a year or two!

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Burro Confidential

"Burro Confidential" (pastel, 13.5 x 13.5 inches) $625 unframed for a limited time.

Happy Spring, y'all! Happy Easter!

This was a demo I started last weekend at the Carriage House Gallery in Boerne TX, and recently finished in my studio. I had the drawing down long before that and finally dug it out to paint! These are a couple of donkeys I met near Marble Falls a few years ago, and I composed this gossipy pose with two pics in Photoshop.

If this is still available in a week or so it will be framed and taken with me to the Cottonwood Art Festival in Richardson TX (near Dallas) the first weekend of May.

Donna Kia

"Donna Kia" (pastel, 12x6 inches) $400 framed

I'm finally back to some inventory boosting after several weeks of commission jobs. I do enjoy commissions, but there's something to be said for not having to answer to anyone's expectations but my own! (And then I can never post the commission results until after the gifts are given ...but I want to post them NOW! So the finish is sometimes anticlimactic... )

Donna Kia will be with me at the Bayou City Art Festival in Downtown Houston, Octover 13-14, 2018. Come on out and enjoy the weekend! Find me in booth #350 on McKinley Street with many of my summer paintings!

Here are progress shots of Donna Kia:

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Don Kiefer

“Don Kiefer” (pastel, 12x6 inches) $400 framed

I realized my inventory was low on donkeys, so here’s another one. Don Kiefer will be with me at the Midland TX SeptemberFest next weekend, Sept 7-9, 2018.
Click here for festival info and tickets! Hope to see you there!

See progress shots below:

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Fuzzy D - day 28

"Fuzzy D" (pastel, 12x6 inches)  click here to bid or buy

Day 28 of my 30-paintings-in-30-days of November.

I love it when I find a painting almost done on top of some boxes in my garage where I had put it after unloading from the last art fair. This one was a 'demo' I had started at the Bayou City Art Fest in October... Well, now it's good for "day 28"!

My booth

 There it is, way over on the left...