http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:52:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en contemporary granite fireplace mantels budget duvet covers usa how to install exhaust fans cabbage detox diet funky doo clarks shoes bathroom exhaust fans and lights jimmy choo bridal shoes monet cross stitch patterns aluminum fishing boats for sale in oregon bed king siz air mattress history of heeled ballet shoes and boots prom hairstyles for curly hair salt water fish tanks programmable coffee ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/02/24/winter-images/ http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/02/08/pen-and-ink/ Here's another little painting on paper. I love the way cows punctuate a landscape. 'Til the Cows Come Home oil on paper   7 x 9  $150 matted and framed under plexiglas http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/01/31/more-cows/ Weekend before last we were invited to an annual "Moonlight Snowshoe" party, along with everybody else in town. It's always a question whether the weather will be clear enough and warm enough for moonlight and comfort. But first, before we got to the party we took a long ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/01/20/a-moonlit-night/ One of our neighbors is a dairy farmer--close enough that we can hear him calling his cows early in the morning.  He and his son manage the herd mostly by themselves and they work so  hard--milking twice a day, bringing in the cows, planting and haying in the summer as ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/01/11/farmhouse/ This painting is loosely modeled on #4 in the previous "It Took Dominion" series so it's mostly made up. I love plein air but painting out of my head is particularly satisfying--when it works.  Creating a landscape makes me feel a bit arrogant  but I guess that's what one ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2009/01/01/dark-water/ I finished this one recently and am pleased with it. Trees fascinate me as a subject and all the time I was painting  I was remembering the time my dad paid me a dime to memorize Joyce Kilmer's poem, "Trees." ("I think that I shall never see ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2008/12/30/trees/ And here you see the advantages of a standing seam roof.  Last winter we accumulated four feet of snow and ice on our old roof before we had it shoveled off --apparently just in time.    The white stuff still built up on the new roof but as soon as we ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2008/12/30/eavesdropping/ My nine year old granddaughter visited over Thanksgiving.  I had decided that she was old enough to try oils, especially since we just had a powerful ventilation system installed in  my studio.  I had ordered some little latex gloves for her as well so we were all set.  I was ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2008/12/24/emmas-first-oil-painting/ Here's a painting I did some time ago; I kind of forgot that I'd finished it. When we're in Utica visiting our daughter, Ed and I like to walk around the local golf course for exercise. One morning when we started out there were many jet trails in ... http://www.andreasart.doughtie.com/blog/2008/12/20/morning-light/