Texas Sauce Art Life: watercolor dog art

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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Texas Aggie Dog, watercolor painting progress #2

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things” —Edgar Degas

ART. If Degas' statement above is true, then I ought to be just about ready to do good things, because I'm not sure at all that I know what I am doing.

This image is the 2nd progress photo of Buster, the Texas Aggie. I decided to put the (ghosted) Academic Building in the background. I used to work in that building in another life that feels like centuries ago. Really I thought I would be finishing this one today, but I didn't. While the watercolor paints dry, maybe I can get the first wash of color on the canvas for my next oil painting.

LIFE. Hardly seems possible that my blog and I celebrated our 6th anniversary together on January 27. Time surely is slipping by quickly. January is over. February blew in with a blizzard even in southeast Texas. Nineteen degrees with a 4 degree windchill factor is just too cold for this Texas gal. I'm used to reasonably warm weather in the wintertime. I am so thankful to have a warm house. I hope the rest of you are keeping warm as I know a lot of you have it much colder than we have it here.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Life Philosophy, SMALL ART GIFTS, Golden Retriever Puppy 8109.

ART. vbh-8109 | "Every Old Dog was Once a Puppy." Golden Retriever Puppy. Postcard painting with rounded corners can be mounted on mat board and framed to 8x10 inches or larger. Original painting.

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LIFE. When I was in my thirties, it was trendy to say, "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up." I know a few people in their sixties who still live by that mantra. Do we ever really grow up? In my mind I feel ageless. Do we accumulate life experience and hopefully wisdom? Life experience varies. Each of us is on a different track. Life takes us down different roads to experience different lives. Our one common element is that each of us was once a baby. Surely the secret to enjoying life is in new experiences approached through the eyes of a 'puppy' and the wisdom of an 'old dog'.

Today's Blessing: God takes me where I need to be. (At the moment, I'm headed to the kitchen for an early morning cup of coffee.)

V. Bridges-Hoyt

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Friday, June 5, 2009

BORDER COLLIE, a work in progress

ART... and yet again my studio dog becomes the model for another painting, this one a watercolor sketch which will be completed and posted to the Art Helping Animals art blog tonight. I'll add a finished image here also.

This one was begun today after lunch and was painted alla prima. I love the looseness of the paint in this one. Mostly it was painted wet in wet, but now it is drying while I am back at the easel on the oil painting.