The Amazing Nursing Cookie

Cookie is my Schnoodle, a breed that is fifty percent Mini-Schnazuer and fifty percent Mini-Poodle. She's one hundred percent love. We adopted her almost one year ago and at that time, she was two years old. She still nurses. Don't leave your blankie out, she'll gather up a musselful and go to town.

She's not picky about what blankie she nurses on. It could be a Walmart couch throw at my house, or Macy's velvet on my daughter's couch. I now pack nursing blankets for Cookie when we travel.

I'm so happy to be painting in oil again. I painted this yesterday from a sketch and then took it's picture on my cell phone, so it's not the best quality. When dry, I'll scan it, but at least I've learned how to save phone pictures to the memory card, push the same card into my printer and SAVE the file. This took about 4 hours to figure out, because I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to using photo-printer type devices.

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Cardinal Conclave

ACEO, 2.5 x 3.5 inches Watercolor, $ 18. Buy with Paypal As of this posting the Roman Catholic Cardinals are still in conclave to discover the next pope. I'm not Roman Catholic but I do have a wonderment about the this process because it's so entwined in mystery. This little watercolor Cardinal was at my bird feeder where he grabbed a sunflower seed and quickly flew to a tree limb to perch and enjoy. After which he waits his turn to return.

Little Dee, No.1

Little Dee, No. 1 - Oil on Canvas, 2 x 2 inches with Easel $20. Buy with Paypal This is an experiment to force myself to say more with less. Painting with less brushwork because I have to! Also, I don't paint on canvas, so I have to get use to that. But I am having fun.

Piglet Oil Painting, "Hay Maze" by Brande Arno

The finished "Hay Maze" Piglet Art I truly love how this piece came out. I've been amazed at the pure color and beautiful brushwork of Angela Moulton's paintings. Every time I see her latest collection on YouTube, I am awestruck at how pure the background color is. So I wanted to try my hand at upping background color value in my work. Below is how I started: Hay Maze Start Here, I establish the main layout and gesture of this piglet's face. I'm striving for something that looks painterly, yet would bring a smile to the face of the viewer, so this stage is important. Also, color values on the pig are being set. Hay Maze about halfway This is where I put that rich background color in. Notice some neutral colors in with the bright. I wouldn't want all bright green here as it would be like all caps when texting. I'll re-post the final Hay Maze below: Lots of changes from the halfway point, ...

Brande Arno Art

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