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An artist's view of life as she gathers inspiration from the rolling hills and scenic farmland in the heart of Ohio Amish country. I am primarily an animal/equine artist but also enjoy painting people, nature and flowers. Follow along as I share wor
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Cocker Spaniel Painting Completed!
Cocker Spaniel Oil Painting Lucy and Rosie, owned and loved by Kathie The buff and chocolate cocker spaniel pair that I have been working on is now officially completed. Now on to the next one... a 6 horse commission of a mare and her 5 off...
Lucy and Rosie, Work in Progress III
Lucy and Rosie, a work in progress pet portrait These cocker spaniels are a delight to paint! I am still pretty early in the process of painting these pretty dogs but hopefully you can see their personalities beginning to show thru. The...
Lucy and Rosie, a work in progress pet portrait
This is the progress I've made so far after 2 painting sessions on this 16 x 20 oil painting. I am painting these two beautiful cocker spaniels and then will be painting another similar painting for the same owner of her previ...
3 Cat Portrait in Oils, almost completed
This 3 cat pet portrait is to be a wedding gift so I have been scurrying to get it completed in time to dry by my deadline. I am almost there. I've got to do some more blending on the front cat and some shading on the grey cat so I am a...
Pet Portraits in Oils, 3 Cats WIP
Work in Progress, '3 Cat Portrait' I've been playing around with the placement of the first cat's head in this pet portrait. I decided I wanted him looking down to the other cats. This has some significance because th...
Female Portrait WIP
I've been posting recent paintings of chicks.... the poultry variety. Today I have a painting of a woman and not a chick! :) I started this a couple weeks ago and then had to put it aside to work on some commissions. I am still evening out skin tone ...
Colorful Cat Art
This is from yesterday's painting session and photo session. The pastel on top I am calling Phat Cat and it is 16 x 20. The closely cropped face is small-- 6 x 6 maybe? in oils. I almost like it better before I got very far along.... Both will be at ...
Southwestern Horse - work in progress
I could not stop painting this today! The legs are bothering me and I still haven't gotten to concentrate on the face but its coming along. I turned the horses head in slightly. thanks for stopping by!Sue Steiner equine art and pet portraitsgoogleae3...
Arab Stallion in Graphite WIP
Horse portrait in graphiteWork in ProgressI started this over the weekend as a fun project inbetween some of my commissions. Ultimately I would like to use this same pose to create artwork in graphite, watercolor and oils to show how the different me...
'My Flower Child', oil portrait WIP
I started this last night. This is my daughter when she was 5. She was my carefree, free spirited barefoot little flower child! We lived on an 80 acre farm at the end of a long lane on a dead end road. My kids ran around barefoot and wind blown and h...
Black Lab Portrait, Work in Progress
Work in Progress Pet Portrait'roughed in' stage I have 'roughed in' the lights and darks and have created my roap map in which I will go thru and refine details in this pet portrait. This is done in oils and the glare of wet paint is hard to avoid ...
'White Kitten on the Prowl' oils
I am still not quite done. Sorry I am not able to post more dramatic changes. I am working on a few commissions at the same time and also getting ready for First Friday in Canton which is tomorrow. I want to have some of my daily paintings and pet co...
Pet Portraits in Oil
This one is moving from roughed in to the detailing stage but still has a bit to go. This is my most recent dog portrait. I am still in the roughing in stage-- getting lights and darks and big shapes. Commissioned Pet Portrait, completed (I thi...
Kitten Painting Update
Roughed in Stage of a kitten portraitIn between running kids around and getting ready for Thanksgiving I got to do some more work on the kitten portrait. I felt like I posted this the other day in a rather 'wild' roughed in stage so wanted to take yo...
