Entries categorized as ‘Dogs’
To Annie with Love
February 22, 2008 · 4 Comments
Categories: Art · Dogs
Tagged: animals, Art, blue, canine, colorful, Dogs, fine art, gold, green, love, mauve, mixed media, oil, paintings, pink, purple, yellow
Hello world!
November 24, 2007 · 2 Comments
This is my first launch into the blogosphere, so here goes. This blog will post my thoughts, ramblings and musings about the challenges and rewards of my life as an artist and living in an emerging artists’ community, or that is what I think it will be anyway. On days when I have do not have any thoughts or musings about art or the life of an artist, which may be numerous days, I may have to talk about my dogs: Stretch, a 10 year old male Catahoula that I rescued in 1997 in Port Gibson, Mississippi, Annie, a year old Pit Bull Hound mix, that my husband, Charlie, rescued in June of this year in Paducah, Kentucky, and 15 year old Grace, a Spitz/Husky mix that we inherited from my in-laws.
To the right is an oil painting of Charlie & Stretch, “A Man, His Dog & His Truck”. All I need is a rifle behind them and this would be a perfect painting of our Mississippi years. We lived in Mississippi during the 1990’s, for a decade. Charlie & Nancy, the Mississippi Years…. I was an art professor at a college in rural Mississippi and found Stretch on my way to work one morning. Somebody had dumped him by the side of the road and he was just a little 6 week old puppy. He was sitting on the lip of an orange cone marker, the kind used to keep traffic from driving onto road repair areas. It was an extremely cold morning in October, unusually frigid for Mississippi at that time of year. Well, I could not believe what I saw because he was so tiny and about to run into the road. The nickname of the road or highway is the “Stretch” and that is how Stretch got his name.
We also have two cats but I don’t find them as interesting as the dogs. Charlie is the cat person. We have a three year old Russian Blue mix named Precious and Wallace, a small black two year old female that Charlie rescued. Well, Charlie rescued both of the cats and they like him a lot better than me. There seems to be a rescued animal tradition in our household; we used to also attempt to rescue people but animals are more appreciative, and they do not bite the hand that feeds them. My animals live blessed lives that is for sure.
Categories: Dogs
