Cosmic Armadillo

Title: Cosmic Armadillo
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6x6 inches
Genre: Animals

Don't look now, but there is a giant Armadillo floating somewhere out in the cosmos.

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Meow

Title: Meow
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 10x8 inches
Genre: Animals

Fun cute fluffy kitty cat with iridescent gold background and iridescent border.

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Fish Story

Title: "Fish Story"
Genre: Animals, Fantasy
Size: 5x7 inches
Medium: Acrylic on panel

The big fish is splaining something to the little fish. The octopus has heard it all before.

Discus Fish Study

Title: Discus Fish Study
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6 x 6 inches

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Description: Sometimes when doing a large, complicated painting I need to make small studies of its various components. Here I have familiarized myself with the beautiful colors and markings of a discus fish. Tricky critters to paint!

Blue Buddies

Title: Blue Buddies

Medium: Acrylic

Genre: Fantasy

Size: 8x8 inches

I love monsters and Halloween is approaching. I also love pen and ink, but this isn't pen and ink. It's acrylic on canvas. BTW the tiny Bird is really the more powerful of the two, because he's the Monster's subconscious.

Happy Dragon

Title: Happy Dragon

Medium: Acrylic

Genre: Fantasy

Size: 6x8 inches

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Miniature acrylic painting on wood panel. Whimsical, cute, happy dragon sitting on a stone, with a cat, a bird, and a butterfly. Also a column and an anthropomorphic tree. Signature in upper left, on column.

Ghost with Kingfisher and Orbs

Title: "Ghost with Kingfisher and Orbs"
Size: 6x4 inches
Medium: acrylic on wood
Genre: Fantasy

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This one is limited palette, with thalo blue, vermillion, cadmium red, black, white, and a tiny tiny touch of yellow ochre.  Photo credit for kingfisher: Russ Bridges. The figure is from one of my lifedrawings. And the orbs, well, they just show up on their own. Artist signature is on her belt.

Frog Demo 1

#frog #cutefrog #frogpainting

Title: Frog Demo #1
Medium: Acrylic on illustration board
Size: 6x7 inches
Genre: Animals

The other day I did a demo for the Austin Palette Club on "limited palette." This frog painting is done using only 3 colors: thalo blue and burnt sienna, plus titanium white. Yes, it really does make a green when those two colors are mixed and white is added. You have to use the "green shade" of thalo blue to make this happen; the "red shade" of thalo won't work.  Model was a toy plastic frog, set up next to a little glass bottle.

Knitting at Night

Title: "Knitting at Night"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 6x6 inches
Genre: Fantasy

The image of a sheep knitting in Lewis Carroll's book, "Through the Looking-Glass" has always fascinated me. Haven't seen the movie yet, but would like to. And it was fun to hold my hand in front of the mirror and do some "air knitting" with a paint brush.

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What Shall I Be For Halloween?

"What Shall I Be for Halloween?" A monster contemplates his costume choices. Maybe he will go as Harry Potter. Maybe as an angel. Who knows? As for me, I love Halloween and wanted to get an early start on it this year. I also want to get back to my roots: fantasy and fun art. This is what I enjoy doing the most.

Genre: Fantasy
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 10x8 inches.

Well Owl Be

"Well Owl Be" Acrylic on 8x10 Fredrix panel.

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Another one of my small studies. I was shooting for more realistic but the Owl said no, it wanted to be stylized, and you just can't argue with stylized Owls. Also on this one I tried out a Zorn type palette: black, yellow oxide, cad red med., and white.

Owl Be There

Just a quick little study...

"Owl Be There" 6x6 acrylic on panel. Purple seems to go well with an owl. It's the mystique.
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©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Frog with Pansies, fun art by Theresa Bayer

Title: Frog with Pansies
Size: 4x6 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Everlast panel
Genre: animals, illustration, fantasy

I've been working on painting faster, and have found that if I paint thin, it's much easier to go fast. This one is a little tighter than what I've been doing lately. Still experimenting with this thinner paint body; maybe I can loosen it up just slightly. I also am enjoying putting glazes over an area, to either knock it back or give it some extra color.

I've acquired what amounts to a whole collection of plastic frogs, and used two of them for the frog in this painting. The column is from a clay model I made, and the pansies from a photo I took.

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