Finished "Little Pug" Painting

"Little Pug", 8x10 acrylic, Sold

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Finished the "Little Pug" painting today.  The painting is in acrylics on a 8x10 canvas.  The background is the gesso'd canvas for a low intensity white which makes pug stand out very well against it.  I enjoyed painting the wrinkles and folds.  They made some interesting patterns on his face and in the body hair.  Pug is a friendly little dog that lives next door to us. I hope you like "Little Pug" as much as I did painting it.

Go Paint,
Jimmie Bartlett

Great White Egret Painting

Great White Egret, Acrylic, 12 x 18 gallery wrap, edges painted,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

This is the great white egret I painted earlier this week.  I am proud of this painting as I made the stretcher bars, stretched the canvas on the bars and then painted it alla prima...


My wife took a picture of this guy at the Matagorda Harbour on the inland waterway a couple of months ago.  This painting is so unique in composition in the pose of the egret perched on a log branch above the water.  Look at those toes and length of his legs!  We have been chasing egrets and herons all over the coast for years and were thrilled to get a reference picture this good to paint from.  The weathered logs really added to the scene.  I changed the background to a darker blue to gain more contrast.  I had intended on painting in all the wave action behind the egret as in the photo, but decided it would not add much and probably make the scene look too busy.