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Cowfish · Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: Cowfish ARt

Decidedly, I've decided to put my art all in one thread instead of all over the place, so this is the place to check if you want to see my latest...
(These are watercolors only)

Old Watercolors

"Butterfly"

"Mom's Plant"

"Birds"

"Young Elsie"

"Sunny as Kitten"

"26° Pisces" Or "Cowfish Brother"

Recent (in chronological order)

"Chickens" -an award winner

"Sunny" Or "Jupiter in Scorpio"

"Pink Roses"

"Lick's Kittens"

"Tulips"

"Tucker"

"Yellow Roses"

"Elsie" Or "Saturn in Cancer"

"Cheeseburger"

"Gemini Kittens" (Maine Coons)

"Duck Crossing"

"Hot Beach Bunny"

"Fern"

"Marie Antoinette"

"Sun Conjunct Pluto" & "Brunette Angel"

"Tsavo Maneaters"

"Gerbera Daisies"

"Lone Sunflower"

"Taurus"

"Larkspur"

"Cone Flowers"

"Kokopelli"

"Angelfish" or "Pisces"

"Sometimes You Feel Like an Apple" and "Cardinal Rules"

"?" (Romanian vaca)

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butternut2020 · Active Member Joined: 27 Dec 2005 Posts: 2279

my favorate is sunny and tucker. i think id like tucker the most as a cat.

juicejuffer · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:24 am Post subject:

The butterfly speaks to me. Great art.
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Ray Murphy · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:32 am Post subject:

I know virtually nothing about art, but those examples look too good to be
displayed like that together only in an astrology forum. Also, I was confused
for a few seconds when I first looked - thinking "Why is the photo of Lick's
kittens included with the paintings".

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

mom's plsnt is from life. I think, good move

Cowfish · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

art from life appears more alive, even when it's a copy of art from life, especially important for live things. difficult because, esp with landscapes, & we'd like to see some of those plains & wide skies, you're capturing a moment.

lickdafoot · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1704

wow, i love the butterfly. the colors are great Very Happy

Cowfish · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

a moment through your own lenses, not the camera's lense.

Cowfish · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 5:13 pm Post subject:

^ a ha... that might be fun...
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Cowfish · Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:08 pm Post subject:

Can anyone help me find the male painter from Minneapolis who painted locomotives in realism? I'm OBSESSED and need to find them, but I can't.
I'd ask the 80 yr old artist in town who swore I was a Pisces, but she is sick and I don't want to bother her.
She has sold a few of his locomotives in her gallery years and years ago.
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

try scott hoarty

Cowfish · Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 8:26 pm Post subject:

^You may be right. I'll ask her when she's feeling better.

I know this is goofy, but here's what I did for my dad's bday tomorrow:

[see cheeseburger^]

(in no way do I condone meat eating. this is made for a Taurus male glutton out of love. in fact, have you ever tried a cheeseburger without meat? i have and discovered what we like about it is the vegetables and condiments. nothing at all (if very little) to do with the meat. try it if you don't believe me). Wink

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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

& the salt is what is liked about meat.

Cowfish · Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject:

"Gemini Kittens"

[see above]

Little bday card I made for abigail... Wink

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geetbali · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 798 Location: Neptunian

Nyc, kitties! Very Happy

However did u get them to b still? As a true Gemini, one should have been outta that pic, just barely there..haha
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:20 am Post subject:

Cowfish · Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 1:44 pm Post subject:

Okay here's "Duck Crossing" I made for an upcoming contest in case you're wondering WTH...
In the very back of the dock are two baby mallards.

[see above]

Tried to get a photo of the two cats in their frames (Sunny with thick gold frame for the Leo he is and Tucker in a honey wood frame to match hair), but the glass glare was picking up drinks on my table and the windows.
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

yes, love the kitties.
have to remember to photograph them before they're framed, I don't always........the umages are yours forever, even when a picture is sold.

Cowfish · Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:58 am Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

got the kittens, light too, no problem there, shoed them to some people too

Cowfish · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject:

"Hot Beach Bunny"

(There's just one problem... She has a moustache.)

[see above]
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juicejuffer · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 4:19 pm Post subject:

Cowfish · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Juice.
Up next is a fern...
Just trying to make a few pieces to be displayed and sold in a Diner next week...

Abigail, what a lovely new avatar... Surprised

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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

glad you like it, cowfish, but don't think this means I can paste of things like that. best wishes for your new art venue!!

Cowfish · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:51 pm Post subject:

"Fern"
[see above]
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

very nice fern!!

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:19 am Post subject:

Thanks, abigail. =}
Sunny and Tucker are in windows downtown for sale. I'm grateful for the opportunity, but a bit irked because the watercolors could fade in the Sun. I asked fellow artists and they said they won't fade unless left in Sun over 2 months.
Up next is Marie Antoinette with shadows of starving peasants holding heads on pikes and a tall guillotine in the background.
Sorry, but I'm taking my time with this one because I want to capture the glow of her porcelain skin that other oil artists captured in 18th Century.
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

water colors won't fade, the ones in tubes or cakes. analines are the liquid dyes in bottles. they all fade. some watercolors fade, but you can find out whuch & not use them. the lakes, for instance, are beautiful but will fade.

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:56 am Post subject:

"Marie Antoinette"
[see above]
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:03 am Post subject:

Nu Kua · Joined: 08 Jun 2010 Posts: 99

Wow what talent! Your paintings look as if they are alive. The "Pink Roses" look as if they'd quiver if you blew gently on them. Absolutely Beautiful.

...and ditto about the meat thing. We stopped eating nearly all meat products about a year ago. (thank you, Food Inc!) Once in the bluest of moons we might buy organic, free range, grass fed, ect, but for the most part meat isn't missed at all. It's easy if you tend to eat ethnic anyway.
Seafood... a different story. But I plan to balance it out when I die- I'll have the family dump my body at sea so the fish can eat me for once. Smile

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:08 am Post subject:

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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:47 am Post subject:

^Thanks, Lick.
Next is IDK... I found a rustic frame with glass, so some country flower of some sort, cattails maybe or who knows.
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geetbali · Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 798 Location: Neptunian

I like all ur paintings,the vivid colours & the "un-absractness" that appeals to my heart.
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:55 am Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

you do water colors as I do, as cartoons for oils, the conventional way to do watrercolors is with a lot of water, & using the white paper as whites. all analines are also watercolors, but with them you can't get any pastiche, which both of us like, that's the word for heavier paint.

autumn · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 722 Location: Australia

my favs are the gemini kittens and marie antoinette Smile

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Cowfish · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

lickdafoot · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1704

nice background, your paintings seem to be getting more intricate

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

that's good & correct paper, I use any acid free paper, I like drawing paper, my mother was a letterpress printer & would send me bits of paper she was using, so I have many pictures on many different paper.

juicejuffer · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject:

With "Marie Antoinette" Cowfish takes her game to a whole new level.
Notice how Marie is oblivious to the crowd of rebel rousers and the gullotine in the background? Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

The duck one is probly her most gorgeous but this is on a whole other level. Ray is right don't sell this one cheap!!!!!!
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Cowfish · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject:

^^^Your feedback means so much, you don't even know... Cool

TYSM
Once in awhile I'll have more than one painting going on at the same time. I'm thinking of starting a new one soon of the Tsavo Maneaters. They were maneless, but I will put manes on them to look more attractive.

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/maneaters.html

but tomorrow, yardsale with dad. Yeah, I'm baking brownies. What else...
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juicejuffer · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:05 pm Post subject:

I like the symbolism of how the figures in the background are dark (making you focus on Marie at first) symbolizing their omnious threat. I also like (for me at least) how it almost looks like people at a party or social gathering until you finally see the gullotine in the background. This what true art is all about. Also, if this wasn't intentional it actually makes it more brilliant.
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juicejuffer · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject:

Also, the figures being dark might further symbolize marie's being oblivious to omnious threat in the background.
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Cowfish · Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 11:19 pm Post subject:

I meant any and all of my paintings, Juice, but to pick apart one is okay too. Also, critical comments are helpful.

juicejuffer · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:25 am Post subject:

I can hardly by critical of something I could only dream of doing half as well as you do.
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Cowfish · Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:37 am Post subject:

Just a couple minis I did tonight:

"Sun Conj. Pluto" or "MJ and Llama"
and
"Brunette Angel"

[see above]
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

if nthe colors get stuck too much on the envelope I have 2 xeroses of it.

Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject:

Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:40 pm Post subject:

"Tsavo Maneaters"
[see above]
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

ooh nice. bad kitties

Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

& they couldn't have been very tasty, strong men hard workers, tough, but the railroad was going through they're territory, railroadsare never liked by animals, they can't get tickets to ride.

Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

juicejuffer · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:24 pm Post subject:

Love the use of color.
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Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

when people say seafood they usually mean shellfish, delicious but too rich in chloesterol

Lise · Joined: 23 Jun 2010 Posts: 57 Location: Denmark

Hi Cowfish

It is very beautiful pictures you're doing.
I am impressed by your cats.

I've seen that many astrology interested also is painting, or perform some form of art. Also I paint, it is oilpaints. Painting is an almost meditative experience.

Lise

Teo · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 3971 Location: going on 4000

the mysterious blue spot makes the difference
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Cowfish · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:38 pm Post subject:

Lise · Joined: 23 Jun 2010 Posts: 57 Location: Denmark

m.....

Lise · Joined: 23 Jun 2010 Posts: 57 Location: Denmark

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30798033&id=1407522178

I have some pictures up facebook - click on the link - and then click "tilbage til album" - that most of my pictures (forty-eight).
I would like you to see them, that i love the way you paint.

Lise

Cowfish · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hi Lise,
Check your private messages. Smile

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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

got the cats but couldn't get the album
is that your mermaid, cowfish?
200 lbd what?

Cowfish · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject:

autumn · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 722 Location: Australia

I love the warmer pink/greens you used instead of the picture ones.. beautiful, of course Smile

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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

I have a mermaid, a watercolor I did with dayglo paint in mexico on my honeymoon in 1965. it's framed & glassed but I think somewhere I have a photo of it. she has legs & feet though, the little mermaid swimming I guess

Cowfish · Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

yes. very nice. it looks like one I made years ago of a flower we grew, a watercolor with a blue background. it sort of survived the fire but is too badly scorched to do anything but copy it which I probably will never get around tp

Cowfish · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:

^TY...

here's a card i made for geetbali :

"Taurus"
[see above]
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

excellent

Cowfish · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

TY

"Larkspur"
[see above]
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

beter & beter

Ray Murphy · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:34 am Post subject:

Cowfish · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:14 am Post subject:

^TY

"Cone Flowers"
[see above]
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juicejuffer · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:37 am Post subject:

These have some of your best use of color. Could you make more pictures for each sign of the zodiac?
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Cowfish · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject:

A Virgo male requested a painting of one of these... (didn't even know what it was until few days ago)

"Kokopelli"
[see above]

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

oooooh

Cowfish · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject:

Ok so. Sometimes I get lazy and take a break where I feel like I just cannot do it, but where it's going to be how I make a living, I must learn to train such feelings out of me...

here's my brushes:

(the blue one was an expensive gift from an anonymous patron - for "flat wash" )

my current projects (one has been flat washed with a faint blue)

Kokopelli sold. He wants a bigger one next...
Also working on tropical fish. It was going to be Pisces, but it's not "spiritual" enough; it's more "fun" looking.
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:54 pm Post subject:

"Angelfish" or "Pisces"
[see above]
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:18 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

beautiful fish.
sent you some photos monday

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject:

Hi abigail! Tucker faded a little bit in that window this Summer, at least I believe so. Each of us artists get two new paintings to hang in a little while.
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Cowfish · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject:

"Sometimes You Feel Like an Apple" & "Cardinal Rules"

[see above]
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Cowfish · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:41 am Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

I hve a card pair at the studio, they're very shy, especially the lady, I though she's not as bright. yours neads a lady card.

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:23 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

a lady cardinal. she's bluer, 2 birds better than 1

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject:

Oh ok I get it now...
Now that you mention it, at the meeting I could tell: they were kinda wondering where my female cardinal was.
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Teo · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 3971 Location: going on 4000

could i see the original maneaters?
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Cowfish · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 5:17 am Post subject:

Teo · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 3971 Location: going on 4000

being a compilation is good as i shall analyse symbolism and composition!
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Cowfish · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:23 am Post subject:

^Thanks GF I need some honesty in my work.

I am thinking of doing one of your vaca photos while I wait for the poll results...
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

which one? there's one with very sparkling water would be fun (& difficult(

Cowfish · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

no that one is super nice too, the billowing clouds one.

Cowfish · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:58 pm Post subject:

Here's another. Abigail, you can name this one if you want Smile

Started on it last night. Finished just now.

from Teo's photo (vaca) collection...
[see above]
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Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:09 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

evidentlly I can't access the picture's link in the colors. I thin your husband should name them

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:13 pm Post subject:

^pssst...
(i moved all the paintings up to the first post so they are altogether)
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

found the teo photo watercoloor, couldn't find the cone floowers?

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject:

What I painted; the "Cosmos" were actually Cone Flowers. A Virgo corrected me on that. Sometimes I have no idea what I'm painting...
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abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

anyway can't find it. cone flowere are eccinacea, very important herb if you get sick. grows wild here some I think

Cowfish · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject:

abigail · Joined: 11 Feb 2009 Posts: 1969

okay, found it.

Ray Murphy · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:42 am Post subject: