News around here is my Husband's knee surgery went well and he is recovering nicely!  It's kept the Rich Artist a little distracted having him around the house for the past couple of weeks, but he's back to work, (and so am I.)

These are on the back burner as I am working on two commissioned pieces seen in another post, but I wanted to put them up.  The cow with the herding dog, I believe it's a border collie, is a pet cow of a local woman who teaches cutting.  This guy came in as a youngster for practice, and walked right into her heart.  Lucky for him, and for me, as I had the opportunity to take several excellent photo reference shots of him a while back.  This is the first painting I'll be doing of him, there will be more, he's quite photogenic and giving Howard's Heifer a bit of competition as my favorite bovine model!

This piece is 24x24.  This is just a vine charcoal value lay in, although I really do like
it just as it is, this will be an oil painting, just as soon as I get around to it.  I love this
composition, the title is "I herd you".

And one small piece in the wings, 6x12 oil on board, this one is just blocked in, and will be a looser style study.  I love the shadows.

Not the best lit photo, it's on my mantle waiting to be finished.  I might do this on a very
large scale in the future, I think this study is working.