Showing posts with label ducklings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ducklings. Show all posts

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Waddlers

"Waddlers" pastel, 12x9 by Rita Kirkman

 "Waddlers" (pastel, 12x9 inches) buy here

This painting started as a demo in a virtual workshop for the First Coast Pastel Society, and was finished during a recent Virtual Open Studio day. These ducks will be showing at the Carriage House Gallery this Saturday (May 8, 2021) for the Boerne Art Waddle. A fun time!

Enjoy this 2 minute slide show video of the Waddlers painting process here.

Saturday, November 14, 2020

"Snuggle Ducks" (Warm Fuzzies #47 and #48)


 Warm Fuzzies #47 and #48 - "Snuggle Ducks" (pastel, 8x8 inches) click here to bid or buy

This was my demo for the Pastel Society of North Carolina this morning. Once again, these cute critters are from Fry's Fun Farm (as are about 80% of my baby farm animal pics!) The dappled light really attracted me to this image. And the sheer cuteness of the pose, of course!

Here's the reference pic and the underpainting.



Friday, May 10, 2019

New Notecards - and the Boerne Art Waddle

I spent a large part of last month creating note card templates and printing my favorite paintings onto them, since I'd noticed that some of my fellow artists at the Carriage House Gallery in Boerne tend to sell a lot of note cards! I felt it was time to take advantage of that market...

So I ordered some card stock from Red River Paper (the 60lb Polar Mat greeting cards,) trolled through all of my small animal artwork files, and created 5x7 card sets of cows, donkeys, deer, sheep, and three sets of bunnies! Then I ran out of card stock. Waiting in the print queue are the pigs, squirrels, chickens, goats, bison and horses, but I managed to print the ducks today because tomorrow (Saturday, May 11 - today for some of you reading this!) is the Boerne Art Waddle.

What's an Art Waddle? The Art Waddle is Boerne's premier community art show and sale. It's a festive outdoor event held on neighborhood sidewalks and yards on the second Saturday in May. Named after the ducks that populate Boerne's Cibolo Creek, the Art Waddle is organized by friends of the arts. All proceeds are donated to the Cibolo Nature Center & Farm Art Camp 2019. There is no admission fee to the Waddle, though waddlers are encouraged to contribute to the cause.

View the Art Waddle Map here, and find me on Lott Street. I'll have some recent small works along with great prices on some "retired" pieces, as well as special deals on prints of all sizes, and of course, cards!

Hope to see you there!

Ok, here are my other card sets so far... 









 If any jump out at you, they are $20 per set, plus shipping! ;)


Saturday, January 19, 2013

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Walking Out Together

"Walking Out Together"  (pastel, 7x5 inches)  click here to bid

These two reminded me of an old fashioned couple on their second or third date. Still a bit shy and avoiding each others gaze, but unable to resist touching in some way. They'd be holding hands if they had any.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

How to Fold a Duckling

"How to Fold a Duckling"  (pastel, 5x7 inches)  click here to bid

This title came to me when I cropped this drowsy duck out of a larger photo. Despite the contortions, he looks so comfortable and self-contained and perfectly at ease that I felt he needed to be placed gently and precisely in the center of the painting.

(But hovering on the edges of my thoughts I couldn't escape the culinary imagery of flipping the little fellow into position with a spatula... shame on me?!)

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Washing Up

"Washing Up"  (pastel, 8x10 inches)   sold

Here's a painting I did as a request from an admirer who saw my first duckling painting "Safety Net"  at the IAPS convention silent auction and missed bidding on it.  This painting now happily has a home in Canada!

I was looking for a posting of "Safety Net" to link to it, and realized I had never posted it! So here it is below. This was a part of the "Pastel Pics" Silent Auction at the International Association of Pastel Societies biannual convention in Albuquerque last May.

"Safety Net"  (pastel, 8x8 inches)   sold