Folk Art Mary

Cows and Barn - Cow Closeups

Each one of my carved and painted pictures involves many layers of paint. Sometimes it can take longer to paint a piece than it takes to carve. I wanted to show you a "before" and "after" of the cows in the lower left corner of Cows and Barn, Top of the Lake.

Before. Below you can see the cows much as they were in the previous posting of this blog. Although much painting has been done, details are still rather blurry. Note that I decided to move the snow drifts into the outer frame of the piece, thus necessitating me carving down into that area (see the raw wood?, and the few little pieces of woodchips?).

 

After. After a lot more painting of lights and darks, gold leafing the inner frame, plus adding eyes to the cows, I'd call this lower left section complete.

folk art (self taught) Mary

Drawing - Cats in a Bunch

This drawing is called Cats in a Bunch. When the heck are you going to feed us.

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Drawing - Cat and Dog at the Table

This drawing is called Cat and Dog at the Table. It's time to be fed, but my oh my there isn't much on the plate!

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Back in the Saddle - Series of Drawings

It's summer, I've hardly been near my computer - but now I'm back in the saddle. These blog postings will come a little less seldom until the weather forces me back inside.

I've been doing a fair amount of drawing in the past few months, and thought I'd post a few pictures of these drawings.

This one is called Guard Dogs with Dreaming Guy in a Bubble.

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