Peaches and Cream Cow

Peaches and Cream Cow flew off my brushes last night and a little more today and has a very soft feel to it. I am pleased with how it turned out and continue to enjoy the process of letting each cow speak to me and unfold almost as a mystery does as all the pieces come together....not quite knowing where the pieces of the puzzle will lead... It is truly a blessing to spend my days working as an artist. It is not without frustrations and interruptions, and paint on the carpet, and dogs dragging oil soaked paper towels everywhere....but I still wouldn't trade it for any other job. It has been about a year and a half since I began to learn how to paint in oil. I had mostly worked in soft pastel and some acrylic but after some 300 plus paintings this past year....it is hard to imagine NOT working with oils. I am still discovering what they will do....ALOT! You can layer with many thin layers and glazes and load it on the canvas creating hills and valleys of texure! The best part is the mushing together of colors that create unexpected effects that make you delerious with delight. If you are not already an artist or oil painter....go for it! It is definitely worth trying and don't be discouraged....it just takes time like so many things and you will love it.

This piece is a 12 by 12 on canvas and can be reached by clicking on my eBay store link. Have a great day! Norma SOLD

Brown Cow Sunbathing

Brown Cow Sunbathing is a 12 by 12 original oil on wrap around canvas with painted sides. You can choose to frame or leave unframed. This bovine beauty impressed me with all the colors I saw in her fur as the sun shown down brightly on her and the great expression she had on her face. The more I paint these wonderful faces the more I appreciate all the subtle differences in each one. I just enjoy it more each one I do! This was a great weekend with a trip up to pick up my son who goes to Virginia Tech. He had spent the weekend at UVA attending a big function there with friends so we got to walk around downtown Charlottesville and have lunch together. We got home around dinner and I have spent the evening in the studio. It is amazing how a little time away refreshes you and brings more energy and enthusiasm to your work again. Hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks for checking in with me and if you would like to bid on this piece, just click on my eBay store link! Take care, Norma

Purple and Lavender Iris

Purple and Lavender Iris is an 11 by 14 original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted. You can choose to frame or leave unframed. To bid on this piece, click on my eBay store link. Thanks so much for looking!

Golden Irish Cow

It is late on a Friday night and I just finished this piece. It was really fun to paint this beautiful gal. I had never painted one with quite this coloring and I really like how it looks on the blue grey background. It is a 20 by 20 original oil on wrap around canvas with 3/4 inch sides. Please click on my eBay store link for more information or to bid on this piece. Have a great weekend!

White Lily

White Lily is a 9 by 12 original oil on wrap around canvas with sides painted. This piece is a portrait of a strikingly beautiful flower on a dark burnt umber background. It is currently on auction on eBay and can be viewed by clicking on my eBay store link. Thanks for your interest!

Red Apple Trio

Red Apple Trio is a 5 by 7 original oil on primed masonite board and it currently on auction on eBay and can be viewed by clicking on my eBay store link. Thanks so much your interest and bids!

White Irish Cow

White Irish Cow is a 20 by 20 original oil on wrap around canvas. It is currently on auction on eBay . To bid on this painting, just click on my eBay store link. Thanks for stopping by!

Red Horned Cow on Blue Background

Red Cow On Blue Background is a 12 by 12 original oil on wrap around canvas that is 3/4 inches deep and sides are painted. Just click on my eBay store link to bid on this one. Hope you all had a nice weekend. The weather was beautiful here today. I spent most of the day in my studio painting but enjoyed it from my window. Thanks for checking in!

A Couple of Pears

A Couple of Pears is an original oil on 12 by 12 wrap around canvas with 3/4 inch painted sides. It is currently on auction on eBay and can be found by clicking on my eBay store. Thanks for stopping by!

Yorkie Reclining

Yorkie Reclining is an original soft pastel painting on 8 by 11 Wallis professional sand paper. This adorable model is my neighbor, Hershey, and is a tea cup yorkshire terrier. I do many commissioned pet potraits and can work from photos. For more information about commissioning a portrait, please contact me at nswilsonandco@cox.net. If you would like to bid on this painting, please click on my eBay store link. Thanks for your interest! Norma

Brown and White Horse

Brown and White Horse is a 16 by 20 original oil on wrap around canvas with painted 3/4 inch sides. This piece is currently on auction on eBay with a starting bid of 59.00. To bid on this piece, click on my eBay store link. Thanks for stopping by!

Cow Eating Hay In The Snow

Cow Eating Hay In The Snow is a 12 by 12 original oil now available on eBay. Please click on my eBay store link for more information! Thanks,

Pink Iris

Pink Iris is a 12 by 12 original oil on wrap around canvas with painted 3/4 inch sides. It is currently on autcion on eBay and can be reached by clicking on my eBay store link! Today was another great painting day. It was a perfect day to be inside as we had much needed rain....all day. Tomorrow is a day of errands and grocery shopping. I'll also be shipping out some paintings and planning more works for the week. Thanks for stopping by!

Cow on Blue Background

Cow on Blue Background is an original oil on wrap around canvas with 3/4 inch sides which are also painted. I had another wonderful day at the easel working on two cows and beginning a new iris. While I was busy working inside my teengage son was out in the front yard mowing and pulling all kinds of weeds and bushes out for me. He had two of his friends helping him and it was so fun to see all the progress they were making while taking breaks from my painting. We are supposed to get a big storm tomorrow and then I will put down the weed and feed and try to get control of a lawn gone wild. Tomorrow I will be back at the easel working on several new pieces. Thanks for checkin in!

Majestic Kerry Cow

Magestic Kerry Cow was posted today but for some reason did not show up on the daily painters site so I'm posting it again and may do some switching around tomorrow. This painting is a 20 by 20 original oil on wrap around canvas with painted sides so you can choose to frame or leave unframed. It is currently on auction on eBay and can be reached by clicking on my eBay store link. Nite.

Rollikin Rooster 2

Rollikin Rooster 2 is a 12 by 16 original oil on wrap around canvas that is painted on sides so you can choose to frame or leave unframed. It is currently on auction on eBay and can be found by clicking on my eBay store link. Thanks for your interest!

Rollikin Rooster

Rollikin Rooster is a 12 by 16 original oil on wrap around canvas with 3/4 inch painted sides. It is currently on auction on eBay and can be viewed by clicking on my eBay store link. I've been busy in the studio painting for many hours. It has been wonderful to feel better again and to spend time doing what I love. Thank you all for the wonderful notes I receive. I love to hear where my paintings are going and to get to know whose lives they are touching! Have a great day!

Hatteras Board Walk

Hatteras Board Walk is a piece inspired by a trip to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It was a beautiful day and I could see so many beautiful colors in the grass which swayed with the breeze. Kind of makes me want to go back just thinking of it. This piece is 12 by 18 done on Wallis Professional sanded paper and is done with soft pastels. More information can be found by clicking on my eBay store link. Thanks for stopping by!

Yorkshire Terrier

Hello again,

I've been out of commission for the past few day. It's good to be back. I have been nursing back to health after discovering I had a kidney infection. It is amazing how you can take feeling well for granted until you feel so bad that all you want is to feel well again. All other priorities seem to fade away. Since I haven't been painting too much, I decided to put one of my pastels on my blog and to list it on eBay. This one is 8 and a half by 11 on wallis sanded paper. It comes matted with foam core and sandwiched between two layer of foam core to protect the image and keep it safe in transit. I love this little dog and all yorkies. They have the cutest faces and are great little lap dogs. I also do commissioned pet portraits and have more on my web site which is www.normawilsonfineart.com and can be reached with any questions at nswilsonandco@cox.net . To bid on this piece, just click on my eBay store link. Thanks for stopping in! Norma

Colorful Irish Cow

Colorful Irish cow is my introduction to larger paintings...especially the cow portraits. I had written that I would be doing a 24 by 24 and when I looked in my inventory for that size....I realized that I must have dreamed picking up that size the other day at Jerry's Artarama. I do that a lot at the grocery store. I'll have my hand on the item and something shifts in my brain and when I get home...I have the wrong thing! I think I need to get a free bottle of that focus factor! The 24 by 24 will be coming but this size is a nice size too and I really had fun with this one with the light and colors I saw and had fun exaggerating. Enjoy! To bid on this item, please click on my eBay store link! Thanks for stopping by.

American Beauty Cow

I think I have a case of spring fever....I just want to be outside! I'm thinking I need to set up my easel on the screened porch to take advantage of the beautiful weather we are having. It was in the 70's today and the azaleas are so beautiful. There are dogwoods trees in bloom all over the neighborhood. I really need to plant one in my back yard. Today I worked on two paintings....one large landscape with poppies which will probably be on here on Thursday. I also did another cow....this one with a dark background which really makes the cow look very striking. I like it and it is a 12 by 12 original oil on 3/4 inch wrap around canvas with painted edges. It is currently on auction on eBay and you can bid on it by going to my eBay store link. I'm excited to get up early and get painting tomorrow. I'll be posting a 24 by 24 cow tomorrow night! I also have to get that darn tax stuff faxed to the tax man and a zillion other things! Nite! Sleep well.

American Cow Greeting

Hello!

It's hard to believe it's already April! I've been working on gathering my tax information and continue to search for ways to stay organized with the mounds of paper that seem to multiply like the mismatched pairs of socks. There's so much that goes into the process of painting and selling paintings.....some days all I want to do is paint and skip the rest but alas....my personal assistant has not appeared yet so I will have to find ways to balance it all. Whenever I do sit down at the easel....time flys and I get lost in the process. It really is a kind of bliss. I am so grateful to be able to do what I love and to share it with others. Tonight I am posting another American cow in the very familiar 12 by 12 format on stretched canvas. It is an original oil on auction on eBay and can be reached by clicking on my eBay store link. This week I will be introducing a new size....a 24 by 24 cow portrait....hope you will check back. Thanks for stopping by.,...

Real Rockin Rooster

Another weekend comes to a close. It has been a busy one with painting, exercising, church and some yard work today. It was good to be outside in the beautiful spring weather and to get things cleaned up and ready to plant some flowers this week.

Today was another rooster day and I had fun with color and loose expressive brush strokes on this one. It is a 12 by 12 original oil on canvas with wrap around sides and is currently on auction on eBay. To bid on this piece, click on my eBay store link and as always....thanks so much for your interest and your bids!!