Summer Paint

"Summer Paint" 9 x 12 alkyd oil painting

New Work - Katie & Racoons

These are two new works, a pet portrait, "Katie" 4x6

...and "Racoons" an ACEO

New Work - Tigers!

I recently visited a big cat sanctuary in Bridgeport, TX, the Center for Animal Research and Education, or C.A.R.E.  and got to see lots of tigers, lions, and, mountain lions!   I decided to try to help out a bit (the only way I can) by painting and selling art featuring thier cats and donating half the proceeds to them.  Here are the first two.  Both are 5x7 oil paintings and are currently listed at auction or 'buy it now' on ebay at www.KerryOriginals.com. 

"Dreamy"

"Intense"

...and, the latest...

"Hungry Tiger" 4x6

Sketchbook - Cassie, Pronghorn, Cricket, Saddle Bronc

This is our little pretzle-girl Cassie. 

This is Cricket a yearling we had for a very short time before she was tragically injured and had to be euthanized.  She was a sweet filly and a real beauty. 

From a photo I took at a Fort Worth rodeo

a study of a pronghorn buck done for practice for the painting, "Fleet Pronghorns"

New Work - A Chance Find

Here is the final version..finished, and, delivered...

New Work - Fleet Pronghorns

I'm playing catch-up again!  This was finished a little while back now, but, I am just now getting it posted here as a new finished work!  Here are the final images of the finished painting;  
"Fleet Pronghorns" 12x16 oil on panel.

WIP - Pronghorns

I have this very nearly complete now.  I need to go in and do a little cleaning up and some detailing on the pronghorns yet, then, just sign it and it's done! 

WIP Pronghorns 2

Here's an update on this painting.  I have gone back into the background and built it up with textured paint.  I'm using alkyd oils on this with Liquin Impasto medium to add texture.  Next up will be to establish all those legs and build up the background around them.  Then I will go into the pronghorns and get them finished up with the textured paint, and, finally finish off the foreground.  Here are picks of it as it stands today.

...and a close-up to show the brushwork

WIP - Pronghorns

This is one I just started today, but, I have done a bit of researching and studying to get the anatomy down and to make sure I don't do something silly in my composition like make the pronghorns jump a fence...lol!  (Pronghorns do not jump!)   Anyway, this is just the start and even this drawing will likey undergo some changes before I get too much farther into this. 

This was my intial sketch that inspired the paintings.. I'm not re-creating this in the painting.  Rather, I am drawing a similar but differant image.

Here I started drawing onto my hardboard panel using soft vine charcoal.  I then went over the vine charcoal with the hard charcoal pencil.

the finished drawing...

and, the roughed-ing under painting.  More to come soon!

New Work - "Desert Gallop"

Here's another OSWOA  oil painting, some arabians streaking across the desert...
4"x6" "Desert Gallop"

New Work - Mustangs - On the Run

A herd of wild mustangs gallop for sanctuary over the side of a steep hill. With the future of America's wild horses in question, I find myself dispairing of thier fate, and, I am impelled to paint them (always a favorite subject of my art) once again, perhaps in an attempt to capture the freedom, beauty, and, dignity that our wild horses have always represented...at least to me!   New 12x16 oil painting on hardboard panel.  Just click on the title to see the Etsy listing! 

Texas Tiller

This little armadillo has been living under our deck for years and usually we just get quick glimpses of him and hear him rooting around at night.  Today, he came out early and spent several hours foraging among the fallen leaves in the back yard.  He was timid at all.  I stood within 20 feet to take pics of him and he didn't even act nervous.  Here are a few pics of the 50+ I took.  Notice the scars and tattered ear.  I think he had a run in with a coyote or dog.  Most likely coyotes as there is a pack that lives in the field just out back of our house.  We hear them howling at night when the pack congregates. 

Note the tooth scars on his upper and lower shoulder. 

Something tried to chew his ear off.

Digging....plowing the yard

Digging....

Going in deep!

New Work - Sparring Bucks

   Golds and tans of the Autumn landscape frame a small clearing where two whitetail deer bucks test thier strength and cunning against one another while a mildly interested doe watches thier antics.


   This one-of-a-kind small format artwork is suitable for traditional framing, and, it measures 5 inches by 7 inches. It is an oil painting on archival, 1/8" thick hand-prepared hardboard panel, and, is signed on the front, and, titled, dated, and, signed on the back.

Sketchbook - Komodo Dragon

I love reptiles and have kept various sorts as pets over the years, but, komodo dragons...the big ones...give me the heebie-jeebies!  They are so prehistoric and so coldly predacious...this was just a little 8 or 9 footer at the Fort Worth Zoo sitting under a log beside his water trough, watching me watch him!