Cassidy and Kylee
Exclusive, handcrafted original works of art that bring joy to your soul. Fawn McNeill creates a large variety of subjects and styles, including realistic animal portraits, playful mixed media, impressionistic landscapes and seascapes, angels and inspirational art, wildlife, florals, and Plein air paintings. The artist owns and retains all copyrights (even if you purchase a painting).
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Art camp continues
Here are some more of my student's work. they range in age from 8 to 14 this time. They picked out something to draw, free-handed it and painted it in acrylic on hardboard. What a great job!
Cassidy and Kylee
Cassidy and Kylee
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Summer's End 2
Acrylic on watercolor paper
9 x 12 inches
SOLD
Just another painting lesson that I thought turned out nice, so I decided post it. These are fun, taken from how-to-paint books. I use them for a spring board with my students and then the elements are rearranged and the colors are changed.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
New Fawn, wildlife art
9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
(ready to frame)
I painted this from a photo that a friend of mine (Paul Miller) took of this 3 or 4 hour old fawn in his yard in Libby, Montana! Of course it is my name sake, so I couldn't resist painting it. I free handed the drawing in pencil, and then changed the colors a little to enhance the flowers she was trying to hide in.
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Student work
Kieran and Katy
Haley and Denise
I have started summer art camps, and here are a few of the paintings the kids have done. They range in age from 7 to 12 years old. We all started with the same picture, and then I encouraged them to be original and use different colors and move things around a bit. It is always fun to see their fresh new ideas!
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Spring Buck, Montana Art
8 x 10 inches
Acrylic on canvas
This is a little clearing I saw when I went for a walk a couple of weeks ago, in Libby, Montana. It was a crisp cold morning. The crab apple trees were blooming everywhere, along with wild flowers and dandelions. Too wonderful.
This is the third painting in my Montana series.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Schoolroom Mural
"Schoolroom Mural"
Acrylic
The orbs of light are in different locations on each photo I took, sometimes large and sometimes small. I have seen this before, in photos I have taken at church, so it thrills me to think the angels have been with us while we worked on this mural!
This is the mural that my students have been working on the past month or two. (Rebekah is 13 and Rachel is 8.) Luke, who is 3 years old, painted the little yellow flower off to the right of the tree while I guided his hand. This mural is in the home school room/ play room. While I have been painting murals on their bedroom walls, the kids have been coming out for a couple of hours once or twice a week. I have enjoyed this project tremendously.
This is the mural that my students have been working on the past month or two. (Rebekah is 13 and Rachel is 8.) Luke, who is 3 years old, painted the little yellow flower off to the right of the tree while I guided his hand. This mural is in the home school room/ play room. While I have been painting murals on their bedroom walls, the kids have been coming out for a couple of hours once or twice a week. I have enjoyed this project tremendously.
They came up with the ideas, and the colors! Some of the apples have family member's names on them-- creating a very unique family tree. I have been helping them when things get a little too far off, and to clean up any mistakes. Don't you think they have done a great job making this room so colorful?
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Spring Thaw, Libby, Montana
8 x 10 inches
Acrylic on canvas
(painting continues on sides, framing is optional)
Just got back from Montana. Had a family reunion and memorial in honor of my grandmother who passed away a few months ago. Mixed emotions. It was great to be home, even though it was for a sad event.
I saw a huge bald eagle, so I included it here. I also saw deer, elk, wood ducks, and Canadian geese! so exciting.
All the creeks and streams are gushing with melting snow right now. Quite a muddy mess in some places. I still found it so very beautiful, and the cold mountain air is still invigorating.
I couldn't wait to get painting! This was done alla prima. It is the first of a series. Hopefully I will get to do quite a few more.
Please bare with me, with commissions and custom work on large canvases my small daily paintings have been on the back burner for now.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Down Stream 2
Acrylic on hardboard
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This is a white ibis. They have long curved beaks and around here they are often mistakenly called curlew.
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Now I Lay Me Down
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Made this one up quite some time ago. It was in reference to a night time prayer I used to say with my boys. I didn't like the whole prayer, so I changed it to a kinder version that left out "if I should die before I wake . . ."
"Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, please keep us safe through the night, and bless us, dear Lord, with your morning light." Then we would ask God to bless each person we loved by name.
I do miss those sweet voices and tender prayers. So honest and true to listen to the heart of a child.
Enjoy!
(I will be out of town for a few days, so I won't be posting again until next week.)
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Over Flow
9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on watercolor paper
Not Available
The rivers and streams often spill over and it reminds me of God's abundance.
God fills our cup with blessing upon blessings, and this is for us to be encouraged and content. But He also fills us to overflowing, and this is for us to reach out to others!
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Rain Rain Go Away, Plein Air
12 x 24 inches
Acrylic on canvas
ready to frame
This is another older painting that I did on location a few years ago, before I started posting on line. I was really into thin layers of paint, then sealing them with a varnish. When all the craze came out with the watercolor canvases I moved on to something else.
It actually started raining off and on. I loved the effect it created in the background. As it dried I added the thicker layers of foliage over the top.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Libby Creek
6 x 8 inches
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
NOT AVAILABLE
This little painting is from a recent lesson I taught. It reminded me of Libby Creek in Montana. The water gets low in the fall, but during the summer, when I was 12 years old, my friends and I would float the creek on inner tubes, except the real shallow areas, then we had to get out and walk a ways or try to bounce along on the rocks! We would cry out "Bottoms up!!!"
The part I liked best was coming around a fast bend into deeper water. We tried bumping into each other because sometimes you could knock a person off of their tube! The water is ice cold, so it was funny to see them scramble in a hurry to get back on their tube. All of us had our share of getting dunked!
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Slow Passage, Morning Stream
6 x 6 inches
Acrylic on canvas
NOT AVAILABLE
Just a fun little painting, thought I would try a limited palette this morning. It's alla prima. I started with different shades of blue. then added some yellow orange and tints of yellow, yielding many wonderful shades of green. Touches of purple went into some of the shadows. Finally, accents of red were used to set it all off! I love the feeling of atmosphere that the bluish hues convey.
Nature has always been one of those things that brings me back to the positive thoughts and good memories in my life. Then I can be thankful again for the many good things in my life. Seems like we can easily let the hardships we have faced rob us of the joy that is ours for the taking.
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