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| I totally enjoy painting pet portraits, in oils, so much! Here are a few of my custom/commissioned pieces. I hope you wil enjoy them.If you'd like your own fur baby's portrait done, for a forever- treasure of your own, please contact me through this blog, or email me with your photos @ sandrasartart777@aol.com Thank you so much for looking! |
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| Adding a lose background, and some of the lay-in, using the darkest colors to start building layers of color. |
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| A close-up shot, making sure I am happy with the drawing, and ready to add those bold rooster colors we all love so much! |
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| Coming along on this large canvas oil painting of a brilliantly colored rooster. |
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| Another close-up shot of the handsome rooster, "Yard Dog". |
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| A close-up shot of the finished rooster, showing the wrapped and painted sides- no frame needed! |
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| The finished original oil painting on a wrapped- all sides painted, no frame needed, high quality 24" x 30" x 1.5" canvas. I've taken the liberty to title this big boy,"Yard Dog" because he knows he is so dang handsome, and strong. He is faithfully watching very carefully for any intruders who might try to seal from his harem in the chicken yard. |
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| I have already prepped my canvas background with burnt sienna , thinned with turps (odorless turpentine), added a mixer of black, for my darkest "darks", like the trees that will be in the background. Dark pushes things into the background,wile light colors bring things forward. I've mixed some black with cadmium yellow medium to make a good earthy green. I have also added a touch of blue in the sky, still deciding on what blue will work for me. I am using a #5 palette knife, or a medium pointed palette knife. I will also be using a large brilliant #22 paint brush- wide with a fine edge. The copy of a painitg that you can see clipped to the easel is not this painting. I was going to repaint that one again- or something close to it, since it has sold, but I ended up allowing my imagination to take over today with something new. |
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| With the pallet knife, I have scraped downward and to the sides a little, making the paint smoother, but lose. This is not the stage to use thick paint. I've added a small pond, or the illusion of some water using the blues I've selected for the sky colors. My blues are Winsor Newton French Ultramarine blue, Radiant turquoise blue by Gamblin, and WN titanium white- mixed. |
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| As you can quickly see,I have not been great about taking enough photos during the process. I apologize! Sometimes I can stop and take pics, while at other times it is flowing so nicely for me, I forget to stop! I will try harder to take more photos of my steps in painting. So, here is my completed and signed painting, for sale, and listed in my Etsy Shop. |
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| A side shot to show how the painting background wraps around the canvas- on all sides. Ready to hang with hooks and wire, no frame needed! I appreciate you looking and watching as I create. I love painting in oils! Blessings to you and yours, Sandra Reeves Cutrer Fine Art |
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| Palette knives were used to make this brilliantly colored landscape, impressionism style. Lots of texture. ****Always feel free to click on any of the photos to see an enlargement! |
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| The depth of the 16" x 20" canvas is 1.5", so no frame needed! |
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| Another close-up view of this landscape original oil painting. |
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| A close-up shot showing the lose strokes and scrapes of the palette knife, as I pull it all together. |
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| One last close-up shot,showing off some of the bright and cheerful colors in this original oil painting. I hope you've enjoyed this painting. It is for sale in my Etsy shop, under Sandra Cutrer Fine Art. In my last blog I mentioned making new beginnings for myself. One of the many changes I will be making is trying to slowly transitioning my name, adding in my maiden name, Reeves, then slowly removing the Cutrer name, since it no longer pertains to my new life. Thank you for reading my blog. Please come back soon. Don't forget that I have started a new Facebook page called, "Still Magnolias". Using the word STILL, meaning, although many of us have been BRUISED, BEATEN DOWN in so many different ways mentally, physically, emotionally, or even spiritually by an abusive addict, we are STILL beautiful flowers, blooming and living until the day God picks us and takes us home with him. Blessings, Sandra Reeves Cutrer Fine Art |
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| Front view of impressionism oils on stretched canvas |
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| Up-close shot |
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| Sides of canvas painted, in case a frame isn't desired. |
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| One more close-up view. |
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| I love Clematis, and I don't know why I haven't painted it before. Clematis is actually a gorgeous flowering, easy-to-grow vine. So, here goes. |
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| I start off with some dark purples, and the red that I see in the blooms. I think i ma going with a textured look. I've already dipped into the background with greens. I use a Phthalo green, Sap green, and Thalo yellow green. I also add some French Ultra Marine blue in the mix at times- for the darker greens. |
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| I work fast, so I don't "over-work" my piece. A close-up shot reveals lose and large strokes. I use a palette knife, as well as a large and small brush, |
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| Here is a shot of the canvas side. Although it is only a .75" wrapped canvas, I usually try to always paint the sides of my canvases, just in case my buyer would rather not frame the work. |
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| A shot of a timid bloom. |
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| The finished painting. |
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| I have my pencil sketch ready on my 16" x 20" stretched canvas. I always keep a copy of my reference photo near, or attached, to my easel. I wish I was talented enough to paint form images in my head, but that has never been the case for me. I love taking my own photographs for my paintings, to avoid any one trying to claim my work was copied from one of their photos. I took the photos of this gorgeous bull on the outskirts of Fredricksburg,TX. I've visited this quaint, tourist-loving town, on many occasions.I love shopping the old downtown stores, and visiting their great art galleries, restaurants, and spending a few nights in one of the many getaway cabins offered in this area. |
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Here I have already added many stokes of the undercoating, nose area, ears, and a flow of the way the hide hair is growing on this magnificent bull. It was a bull, and no, there were no horns on him, so I assume he is a polled bull. I have tried to research the breed, but wasn't able to pull up anything that looked exactly like him! I've attached a little bit of facts about that below:Polled cattle have absolutely no horns, nor scurs nor bare spaces where a pair of horns may have been, whatsoever. The best way to tell is if a cow, bull, steer or heifer is polled is by looking at the poll, itself located just above and between the ears. If it forms some sort of peak, then the animal is indeed polled, not horned, scurred or dehorned.
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| I have worked on creating a soft background, so I don't take away form the focal point- this amazing animal! I was surprised that he allowed me to take many photographs of him, never moving, flinching, or fussing at me.Of course, I was a safe distance away, with a fence between us. He was probably interested in me as much as I was in him, or maybe it was more about wondering if I were a new face coming to give him his afternoon meal! |
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| Here is my finished painting. He sold right away, shipped in a wood frame, and ready to hang. My buyer let me know she was well pleased with her newest oil painting. But, I think I am always more pleased than my buyers, when I can make someone happy with my art work. Please come back and visit my blog. I hope you are all keeping cool during this HOT August weather. I am staying inside as much as possible,although Malee is still insistent that she be allowed to "sun" on the patio. No need to worry, I pick her up and bring her in periodically, as well as make sure she has a bowl full of fresh water, and her healthy kitty food.  Blessings, Sandra Cutrer Fine Art |
I totally enjoy painting pet portraits, in oils, so much! Here are a few of my custom/commissioned pieces. I hope you wil enjoy them.If yo...
