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Happy Fourth of July!   

I have been starting to paint a few candid photos and turning them into oil paintings.   We have quite a few cats.   They make very good subject matter.   Cats are so curious, active, and fun.

Shown are previously painted and already sold paintings of baby animals.   I am doing a series of baby animals now.   The series will be available soon. All paintings here have already been sold.   But I will be making a new series of baby animals available May 16.

Today I finished this Golden Eagle painting.  I was inspired to paint it by a resident Golden Eagle hanging out in a cottonwood tree in our yard. And since he is a "golden" eagle.   I decided to add some sparkly flecks of Alaskan placer gold to the surface. I applied the flecks with a French walnut oil.   But in a month I will affix the flecks of gold with a glossy varnish.   The painting is actually available for pre-order since I have to wait for it to dry and varnish it before I can ship it.  

  I am almost exclusively using Raymar linen panels for my oil paintings going forward.  I have found them to be the highest quality materials and construction available.  Although the price is more than some, they are worth it.   They are also made in the USA. The thickness of these panels is 1/8 inch.   So they are easy to fit into a frame.  They can also be displayed on an easel or mounted in floating framework. A close-up photo of different weaves of linen and layers of oil-based primer from very fine for portraits to larger weaves and texture for landscapes and heavy paint applications. A small sample of some of the paints I use from some of...