A Speed Painting every day, 1 1/2 hours at most, posted with comments here; about half figurative/realistic paintings, and half mixed abstract/figurative/dream/surreal/abstract expressionist paintings.
Copyright © Eileen Adele Hale 2006-2007, all rights reserved
I did some more work on Shilo's eyes, and on his right ear (left side, in the painting). This necessitated working the rock and the tree trunk in the background, a bit. I also darkened Shilo's back end; in the photo it was gleaming in the sun, but in the painting it needed to be darker in order for his coat to look black.
posted by Eileen Hale at
6:06 PM
January 2007, updated July 2023: I am a baby-boomer artist with Northern California roots, back in Northern California at last, living on unceded land of the Nisenan. We moved here from L.A. in the summer of 2003. I was a farmer wannabe, and I have kept chickens (illegal L.A. chickens!), as well as cats, rabbits, mice, rats, a guinea pig; a dog; and now, two cats. I volunteered for several years for our county shelter, walking dogs, and later spent time walking llamas. I spent four years learning Mountain Maidu (one of three related languages of this area's indigenous peoples) as part of Farrell Cunningham's classes. I have retired from doing animal portraits, on commission, and my own website is still waiting for me to set it up. I have moved more intensively into my personal painting work: a mix of figurative (especially animals) with abstract expressionism, surreal elements, and dream imagery. My Painting a Day Blog (you may be looking at it; if not, see Links) is now up and running, as well as an Art Blog (you might, alternatively, be looking at this) with works-in-progress!!
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We love this painting of Shilo. My husband said this was the best xmas present he ever got.
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