Brande Arno Art

Corina's Purple Cheetah 9 x 12 inches, Oil on Board I received this request over the summer.  My granddaughter, Corina has been in love with the color purple since she could say the word.  Needless to say, when it came time to paint her the requested Cheetah, it had to be purple or so I thought.  But what she wanted was a regular Cheetah with purple spots.  Oops.   Well, I sent her this digital and she loves it.  I'm so happy because I don't want to change a thing about this piece.  Process photos below:     Looks like a cartoon here, but better work is yet to come.  However, I did want to keep the Cheetah on the whimsical side...after all, it's purple!   A little more realistic, yet not too realistic.  Looks kinda sad.     The purple Cheetah is finished, whimsical, making eye contact and will be celebrating Corina's 13th birthday with her,  a week from tomorrow.  ...

"Cow Bossie" Sold 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Board This is from a photo I snapped on the way back from an errand a few days ago.  The cow in this painting was, in real life, standing behind a few bovine ladies that were lounging.  I tried to include one of them when I started this piece, but found I had to scrape that attempt away.     Scraping away hours of work never gets easier and I should have learned by now to scrape sooner instead of later.   I'm going to try my hand at painting a whimsical purple Cheetah for my granddaughter's 13th birthday. 

Flying to the Halloween Ball- Sold 4 x 4 inches, Oil on Board I thought it would be cool to paint a pair of Big Bottomed in costume ready to go to the Halloween Ball.  The piece will be up for auction at www.dailypaintworks.com     I'm not a big fan of slasher, dark Halloween, but I do enjoy opening my door that night and seeing children all dressed up for trick or treating.   Especially the toddlers and pre-k group.  So cute.   

Shade Bathers Challenge 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Board This is my entry into the Daily Paintworks weekly challenge which is to paint the shade instead of the sun with beach goers.  I'm pleased with this entry because it doesn't copy the photo that we were to use and I'm happy with the suggestion of muscle tone I was able to capture.  Below is the photo:       

Cotton Dandy  Sold Private Collector 5 x 5 inches, oil on board, Big Bottomed Bees Series This is another piece of my series of Big Bottomed Bees. I really enjoy painting Big Bottoms especially when they demand to wear their heels and bags.  In this piece, they also wanted to have a cotton candy feeling so that was worked into the mix also.  They will be available in an auction at www.dailypaintworks.com 

Little Spotted Goat 5 x 5 inches, Oil on Board, Sold This Pygmy goat's name is Godiva. She was just so cute...  a little chubby love-bug and I want one just like her.  She and her sister were at a neighborhood outdoor fall bazaar that I also set up a spot to sell my homemade doughnuts.   I could hear them bleating before I spotted them.  Well I had to get my sketchbook to draw at least one.  Thankfully, my car wasn't that far away and I was able to sketch Godiva before it got too busy.  I wish I could report that this painting is from that sketch, but I also had my cell phone and took 3 pictures.  I can report that it's a combination of both photo and sketch.     

Forgotten Little Shed Oil on Board, 5 x 5 inches   I drive my Mom to Memory Care three days a week.  The drive is about 15 minutes and we take the scenic route.  I've been telling myself that I'm going to do a little Plein Air painting on the way back.  Well today I did it and I'm so happy I did.   I hope that we get our strong autumn sunshine back next week as there are some trees I want to capture next week.  Have a great weekend everyone!