Tyler and Sam

"Tyler and Sam"

Original Oil on Canvas

8"x10"

$165.00

If you are interested in this beautiful painting, please contact the artist:

Char Davis

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

TURQUOISE LAND & SKY

TURQUOISE LAND & SKY

Original Oil on 1.5" Wrapped Canvas

8"x8"

The other day we had the most unusual sunset here in Colorado.  Our Colorado Blue sky is typically a beautiful, clean and clear blue, blue...but Sunday's sunset had the most beautiful area of turquoise sky..my husband and I were commenting that we didn't think we had ever seen that color of turquoise in a sunset or in the sky, here in Colorado.....near the ocean, yes, but not here.  We were overlooking a body of water and the turquoise reflecting in that water was amazing!  Ahhhh! I just had to capture that color!

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

If you are interested in this painting, please email Char Davis

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com 

ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING

Architectural Rendering

Watercolor

The rendering biz is a little slow this time of year; it's a nice break from the busy season.  Home Portraits  make great  gifts if you are interested!

Thanks for looking today.

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

KARAKUL SHEEP - WIP

I'm working on a 16x20" painting of "Karakul sheep"  My neighbor has a small heard of these beautiful animals, and I've painting these sheep many, many times over the past five years.  Karakul's are very different from the usual sheep you see out in the pasture, and also 

 a rare breed in the United States. For myself, it's the beautiful, curly coat that is a challenge to paint.  Here is a little information about them off the internet:

The Karakul sheep is a type of fat-tailed sheep, very common to the African and Asian continents, but considered a rare breed in the US and Canada.

The Karakul has some unique qualities.  It has a dominant black gene, so a very high percentage of these sheep are born black.  A desert animal (originally) that stores fat in its tail for nourishment in lean times, it is very hardy and adaptable.  The pelts of the Karakul lambs are historically referred to as "Persian lamb" or "Broadtail".  This pelt is a lustrous coat of intricately patterned curls.  They were legendary trade items on the ancient Silk Road of China, and were used extensively in America (for the first part of the 1900s) as a fabric for coats, jackets, and hats.  For these reasons, the Karakul is often known as the "Fur Sheep".

The US Karakul population has drastically declined, however, and the current estimate is less than 2,000.  In light of this, the main interest of Karakul breeders has been to simply sustain the breed's presence in America.  The Registry was re-established in 1985 for that purpose.  Today, small farm flocks are scattered throughout the US, with a few in Canada as well.  The five or six known bloodlines are juggled within breeding programs to perpetuate the breed.

Their devoted shepherds love their exotic carriage, intelligence, hardiness, common-sense instincts, beauty, and independence.  And of course, their rich history, which is unparalleled by any other breed of sheep!

This photo is a work in progress...stay tuned for the finished painting!

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

"READY FOR THE TRAIL"

"READY FOR THE TRAIL"

8"x16"

Oil on linen board

SOLD

This painting just sold to a collector in Elizabeth, Colorado!

I was getting "Ready for the Trail" ready to hang at a show and a good friend fell in love with it!  I'm so glad she is purchasing this painting because I am kind of attached to it, and now I can enjoy it hanging in her home!  My inspiration for this painting was a super fun vacation we took to Asheville, North Carolina, and my hubby and I went on a trail ride through the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains there.  It was spring and was so beautiful!  We stayed at our friend's, Patti and Bear, Bed and Breakfast "Crooked Oak Mountain Inn" in Asheville....what a magical place that is!  It truley is  a 5 star ***** !!Here is the link if you would ever like to be pampered in the North Carolina mountains: "Crooked Oak Mountain Inn"  and if you didn't already know it....Asheville is a VERY ARTSY community....how fun is that!!

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt

visit my blog:  "My Daily Journey"

MINI MARE AND FOAL

Mini Mare and Foal

Original Oil on Canvas

10"x13"

Please contact me if you are interested in this painting
As of July 28, 2010, this painting will be hanging at the Stanton Gallery at the Town Hall Arts Center
in downtown Littleton, Colorado
If you would like to see the show:
"PALETTE PALS CELEBRATE THE WEST"
send me an e-mail and I will send you the information




e-mail me!


Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado


visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

MINI TREESCAPE

Mini TreeScape

Original Acrylic on wrapped canvas

3"x5" unframed

$25.00 

free shipping

Just a small tree painting today..it's mini, small, wrapped canvas 3"x5" 

I love painting trees and any one who knows me, knows I really love to paint all kinds of "treescapes"

Just a quick little study today and I like the way it turned out.

please contact me if you are interested in this mini!

It's fresh and fun, would make a great gift!

e-mail me

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

"WYOMING WINTER"

"Wyoming Winter"

Original Oil Landscape on Linen

9"x12" unframed

$150

I've painted this scene several times using different color palettes.  This day looks cold, yet sunny!  I like the contrast of warm and cool here verses a snow scene that is all cool and cold.  

Thanks for looking today.

Please contact me if you would like to purchase this painting.

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website:  CharDavisFineArt.com

"NEBRASKA PRAIRIE"

"NEBRASKA PRAIRIE"

Oil on Canvas

Original Oil Painting

10"x13"

$300.00 +S&H U.S.

We took a little trip to Nebraska to turkey hunt on a friends ranch there and I painted this landscape, and a few others, on site; in plein air. Plein air paintings are always so fresh and not overworked because you are trying to quickly capture the feeling and the light before it changes too much. I was amazed at the terrain in Nebraska, thinking that it was all flat and prairie-ish....what a surprise when we were taken to the "area" where we would be hunting! There were huge, and I mean huge, canyons everywhere on this property...big enough to build a house in the canyon canyons! We drive down into so many of these canyons with such steep hillsides and totally flat and beautiful in the bottom of the canyon.....it was like a whole different world. Where we stayed in our rv, was up on "top" which was also very beautiful with all of the flat land and panted wheat and corn and other crops. Our friend had around three hundred baby calves that were all just roaming "around" in the canyons...and the turkeys! Hundreds of turkeys in this area...so the hunting and the painting was good! I could have stayed and painted for days!

Thanks for looking today.

If you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact me.

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website: CharDavisFineArt.com

"RED BARN HILL"

"RED BARN HILL"

Original Watercolor

8" x 8"

$200.00

A very loose and "artsy" painting. If you are interested in this painting, pleasecontact me! I also have prints available.

Also, this painting will be hanging at a show at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, Stanton Gallery, Littleton, Colorado, with a group called

"THE PALETTE PALS"

The dates of the show are January 5 through January 29; stop by if you are in the area, I will have 5 or 6 paintings hanging. This is a 5 person art showing that I am doing with my painting friends. We are a small group of painters who paint and show together regularly in the Denver Metro Area.

Thanks for visiting today!

Char is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website: CharDavisFineArt.com

PRINTS of this painting are available HERE

"ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPE"

"ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPE"

I was painting with my Tuesday group, and was working on this oil painting. Someone asked me "what do you call this style of painting" Well...I had to think about that for a minute and then I blurted out "it's called "ABSTRACTED REALISM" So I thought that made perfect sense...it's abstract, but painted from a realistic photo. You can tell that it's a landscape..trees, river.... And, I like the term, so I think I will keep it! Abstracted Realism, yes! I'll have to look that one up and check to see if there really is something called abstracted realism. My son-in-law loves words and is always making up new words that make perfect sense when you think about it, but usually they are soooo funny. One time he came up with "un-truth-tha-tude" which is a lie of course, and he was telling someone that he wasn't happy with the "untruththatudes" the person was telling him! I guess you had to be there because it was too funny. Everyone in our family still uses the word; having quite a laugh about it every now and then.

So, I'll finish my Abstracted Landscape and take a better picture for you. The colors are toned down but still so rich. I really like the way it is turning out; very quite and peaceful. That is just what I needed to paint right now.

Thanks for looking today.

"PAINTED PONY SERIES #4"

"PAINTED PONY" #4

Acrylic on paper

$20.00 free shipping

This is a very small painting, only about 2.5 x 3.5 inches! I'm getting a little bit interested in painting some of the ATC's which stand for Art Trading Cards! I paint with a group of friends and we are going to trade ATCs at a Christmas party in December. The art cards are sort of a craze in the artist and art collector world. Artists normally trade the cards with each other like baseball cards, and art collectors can own a very inexpensive original from many artist they like. I have to tell you, they sure are cute mini paintings when they are matted and framed. Just in case you think my paintings are getting smaller and smaller; what I post tomorrow will certainly surprise you!!

Thank you for looking today.

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website: CharDavisFineArt.com

"IMPRESSIONISTIC CONTEMPORARY FLORAL #1" by Char Davis

I'm having so much fun with the impressionistic style of painting; still have a couple more "PAINTED PONIES" to post, but I just sort of got into these florals while I was out painting in my garden and looking at all of my flowers still blooming and thinking that we don't have very much summer left here in Colorado. I love the changing of the seasons here in Colorado; but I really hate for summer to be over. It seems like summer just started and I haven't had quite enough of it yet. I guess I'm never ready for my gardens to go to sleep for the winter.....hopefully we will have a really long and beautiful fall. The colors and the brushwork in this little painting are so much fun. Take a closer look by clicking on the painting and you can look at the colors and brushwork up close. Enjoy! and thanks for looking today.

"IMPRESSIONISTIC CONTEMPORARY FLORAL #1

original acrylic, 5x7"

$40.00 plus S&H

Char Davis is a Daily Painter from Elizabeth, Colorado

visit my website: CharDavisFineArt.com

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STILL LIFE WORK IN PROGRESS

This is the beginning of my first still life. I won't say "ever" because I have painted flowers in a vase, and once I painted tomatos in a basket. But this is the first still life set-up in a shadow box ever, and also my first very realistic painting. I first painted the green apple, and then just a start on the cheese keeper (borrowed from my Mom, isn't it unusual?) I had a difficult time with the whites of the dish; you would think they would be easy, but nooooooooo, there are a million different colors of white! Anyway, I think it looks kind of antique-ish the way it is now and can't wait to paint the orange flowers.This is the drawing of the still life. At first I thought my drawing was too small; but now I think it will be ok.

This is a photo of my still life set-up. Took me forever to create and photograph this! It was fun though and quite a learning experience!!

Hope you have enjoyed the process, will post more as I get it painted. Thanks for looking.