Corageous Companion

My blue eyed great dane is finished.  A canine portrait in oils on a 9×12 inch stretched canvas.

Courageous Companion - Dog Portrait

I love finishing a painting first thing in the morning!

From the Easel

Two of the oil paintings I’ve been working on.

Commissioned horse painting

Nautilus Shell - oil on canvas WIP

I love it when I get to the point of detail work.  So fun!

Comission in Progress

Sketch for equine portrait.

Step one...

Still a WIP but closing the gap!

This is a smaller version of my original work entitled “The Beholder” – A commissioned piece for J.

Nautilus – Oil on Canvas by Joyce Brandon

Work in Progress

I am really not pleased with the photo editors that came with this Toshiba laptop. 

Great Dane Dog Art – Work in Progress

Landscape Complete

I don’t know how I feel about this one.  But I’m goinna stop here and call it done.

"The Gloaming" landscape painting in oils on masonite

Reference photo for “The gloaming” courtesy of the WetCanvas library. 

I am frustrated and excited by these attempts to stretch out and try new subjects.  I think time will be a friend. – Joyce Brandon

Great Dane Painting Continues…

Dog portrait by Joyce Brandon progressing

I really don’t enjoy trying to get color settings corrected on new imaging software.   This image is close, bu not quite… These greys are more grey than blue in person.  Plus your monitor probably is showing you something slightly different than what I see.  I shouldn’t get quite so picky about it I guess.  Photographing paintings and getting the images to show what is really there – not so easy.  Bless you photographers!

-joyce brandon

Great Dane Portrait WIP

WIP Great Dane dog portrait by Joyce Brandon

Still Life Finished

"Try One" oil painting by Joyce Brandon

I’m quite pleased with how this painting turned out.  “Try One” is a reference to something I frequently tell my daughter when she insists she does NOT like a particular food or activity…  Just try it once.  Maybe you’ll change your mind!  After being force fed still life assignments back in high school I was sure I wouldn’t enjoy them now.  So I had to tell myself, much like my daughter:  Try One!  What could it hurt? 

I’m glad I did. – Joyce Brandon

“The Watcher” Is Complete

Just when I think the duties of settling my father’s “estate” are nearing a conclusion more complications crop up.  I have come to despise automated telephone systems.  The frustration made me reluctant to paint, feeling as UNcreative as I could be.  But I sat down and made my way past the knots of anger and irritation and slowly I began to feel alive and fresh and suddenly I found my groove! 

"The Watcher" Springer Spaniel dog oil painting on canvas panel.

 What joyful therapy.

-Joyce Brandon