Studio Pin Card

"Dusty Dog Studio"

NFS

One of the items Corrine will be selling at Ceramic Showcase next weekend in Portland will be little trailer and VW pins. This drawing is the card they will be sold on.

It's based on her studio, our Airstream and Bettini's in the window.

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Ideas???

"Ideas for Staycation"
ink on paper
NFS

I think that the break I took from painting had only one advantage. I've gotten a little better at doing graphic design. The big problem I see, is that I'm having a hard time choosing what to do.

For the past 7 years I've pretty much being painting and drawing what I wanted, and that description includes commissioned works. When I started something it was always a painting I could see in my mind, even when working with a client. Since I spent the past four months working solely for someone else, not always doing what I wanted to. Oh boo hoo for me right?

Now I'm having a hard time deciding what I want to do. What style, modern or traditional? What dogs, mine or others in my collection of photographs? What sizes, big or small?

I better decide soon, because I have a show that opens on July 2nd.

Bri-

Sketching...

"Black Lab"

8x10 ink on paper
$25 unframed add $5 for shipping in the US
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I'm working on ideas for my next show in July at Benjamin Benjamin in Hood River. The theme/title of the show is "Staycation" which is the type of traveling I'll be doing most of this year. No trips to California for art shows this year.

Next year seems that it might be on the schedule again, because this weekend we'll start our restoration of "Puffy" the Flying Cloud Airstream. Yeah.

Stay tuned for more sketches.

Bri-

The Lion is tame!

"Lion Tamer"

12x12 acrylic on canvas
$500 unframed add $13 for shipping in the US
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It's taken much longer than anticipated to finish this painting of Winslow. I sat at the Short Term Gallery just listening to "Wait, wait, don't tell me" deciding what else could be done, if anything. I chose to add a little more purple to the background and edges, but nothing more to Winslow. I sat there staring at him and off into nothing, before adding the signature.

This is the second painting I've finished in 2010, and can't believe it took so long. The next one I hope comes more quickly and turns out just as well as this one.

I've also finished painting all the mugs Corrine has made for Ceramic Showcase which is April 30th thru May 2nd. When they come out of the kiln I'll post some, even though they don't contain many dogs. Only one design has a dog in it.

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The Lion is almost tame...

"Lion Tamer"
(in progress)
12x12 acrylic on canvas
$500 unframed add $13 for shipping in the US
Email:dogbri@q.com to purchase

Today was my first, full day away from my pay-check job, and I just about finished the painting of Winslow. There were quite a few artists that came in today to drop off work for the new show, and so I didn't paint nearly as much because of it.

The good news is that I'm painting again full-time. Tomorrow I'll spend painting mugs in Corrine's studio, but Wednesday I hope to paint again on canvas.

In the coming weeks I might blog about the pluses and minuses I had working for a pay-check. Right now I'm just so glad to be painting again.

Bri-

The update...

"Lion Tamer"
(in progress)
12x12 acrylic on canvas
$500 unframed add $13 for shipping in the US
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..that I was supposed to add yesterday. I'm just about done with my pay-check job, and so there's been a little more work associated with it this week. We're also hosting the One Year Birthday of TAN at the Eltrym Theater on Thursday, so you can see I'm a little overwhelmed.

By this time next week there should be more paintings in the works. For now I'm off to paint mugs in Corrine's studio.

Bri-

Memory card....

Opps. I forgot my memory card, and my head today, so I don't have any of the progress on Winslow recorded. I'll get it for tomorrow, I promise.

Instead, I encourage you to look at my wife's website to see the work in progress we've been doing together. I've been painting the mugs and creating the trailer images on them and she's been busy creating the trailer lanterns and the mugs themselves.

Dustydogstudio.com

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Little by little..tomorrow?

"Lion Tamer"
(in progress)
12x12 acrylic on canvas
$500 unframed add $13 for shipping in the US
Email:dogbri@q.com to purchase

Winslow's true, well un-natrually true colors are starting to come out. I spent a couple of hours working on him today for the first time in a week or so. I get to spend the day with him tomorrow as well and might be able to finish.

We will all know tomorrow how much I get done.

Bri-

45 minutes of peace...

"Lion Tamer"
(in progress)
12x12 acrylic on canvas
$500 unframed add $13 for shipping in the US
Email:dogbri@q.com to purchase

I made a little progress on Winslow today, and when I say a little I mean a little. I painted for about 45 minutes only. Some painting is better than zero right?

I won't be back at it until Sunday, but I think I'll have some new work in progress posted on the Dusty Dog Studio website this week. I'll keep you posted.

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