June 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Travel, Turtles, Wildlife Art)

Here is the final painting. All that is left to do is the signature :).
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June 14th, 2008 at 6:41 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Portrait, Small Paintings, Travel, Wildlife Art)
Lots of changes made this time. Next will be the final details on each turtle and tweaks throughout the painting.
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June 6th, 2008 at 10:58 pm (African, An Artist's Life, Art Shows, Awards, Birds, Bobcat, Cats, Commission, Ducks, Elk, England, Floral, Fox, Grand Teton National Park, Kitten, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Moose, Nature Art, Paintings, Pheasant, Photoshoots, Portrait, Ringneck, Small Paintings, Snow Leopard, Travel, Trillium, Turtles, Wildflowers, Wildlife Art, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park, deer, fawn, white-tailed deer)

Latham Studios has been signed by Hadley House! Earlier this year we were approached by the company and now things have been finalized. We are excited to be able to share our images with an even larger audience!
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May 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Small Paintings, Travel, Turtles, Wildlife Art)
Now I have darkened overall and added a bit of warm tones and the beginnings of water detail. At this stage, the lights are muted but will be brought out again as the painting progresses and the detail is further developed. The little swimming turtle has been lost for the moment. (I promise to bring him back!) 
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April 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm (Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Small Paintings, Turtles, Wildlife Art, sketch)
Here is the beginning of a new turtle painting, approximately 8 x 3 1/2 inches. It is designed using one of our photo references that Rebecca used for her very well received "Turtle Jam" painting. This one will require 20 turtles though. (Can you find them all?
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The foreground water will be much more developed in the painting.
Keep watching…..I plan to have this one done in a couple of months, hopefully much sooner!
Thanks for stopping by….
Karen
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February 20th, 2007 at 1:44 am (Cats, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Snow Leopard, Wildlife Art)
The snow leopard painting has come a long way since last post. It is nearing completion. I have a number of little putsy things to work on but will be done soon. I really love the way the light and shadows play on the rocks and the fur of the cat.
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February 8th, 2007 at 8:47 pm (Cats, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Snow Leopard, Wildlife Art)
Here is the Snow Leopard in progress (finally!!). Still lots to do with it, but I like the play of light in it thus far. I still have a few bugs to work out in the composition, but I mainly will now progress to adding more textures and color — and maybe a little more "eye candy", the fun stuff!! Keep watching!!
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November 1st, 2006 at 7:30 am (Birds, Commission, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Nature Art, Paintings, Pheasant, Ringneck, Wildlife Art)
One of my larger commissions, this ringneck pheasant was completed as a 24" x 36" painting. It was a challenge, both with a complexly patterned bird and a detailed background. I enjoyed painting it, but was happy to be finished!!
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October 1st, 2006 at 2:57 am (Landscapes, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Small Paintings, Wildlife Art, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park)
We were lucky to capture this wolf walking in the water near Yellowstone National Park. A beautiful back light illuminated him and also caught the water dripping off of him, making him an irresistible subject to paint. This painting was auctioned at the Gilcrease Museum’s "American Art in Miniature" exhibition. It went for $1000. more than the asking price, a huge compliment to me and happily more for the Museum!
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September 20th, 2006 at 2:13 am (Art Shows, Awards, Fox, Landscapes, Miniatures, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Wildlife Art)
This painting, "Northwoods Dawn", was selected for the Arts for the Parks 2006 "Miniature 100" exhibition. It sold at the event. Unfortunately, this show has now been discontinued after 20 years of excellent artwork. It will be missed by many artists and collectors.
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