Paint Party 15 is here and I have two paintings to show you.
This first one is an aceo called 'Bunny Lovin'. I seem to be doing a lot of bunny aceo paintings for some reason...in fact, since my daughter adopted a house rabbit, Moe. He is so cute and litter trained too! He has never piddled anywhere except his litter box. What a good little bunny.
This second painting is the one that has captured my heart. It's a 16x20 oil painting that I call 'Innocence'
This painting is of Buddy the deer, an orphaned fawn that Duncan and LuAnn McCannel of Rice Lake, Wisconsin saved. The McCannels were kind enough to give me permission to paint from one of their photo's that they have on
Buddy's Fan page. Yes,
Buddy has a fan page and he now has 692 fans.
The story of Buddy is heart warming and endearing with a sad ending. Basically, the orphaned fawn followed the McCannels' dogs home and once they realized the fawn was indeed orphaned, they did what most of us humans would have done and cared for the little guy themselves. Buddy loved pontoon rides and if they tried to go pontooning without him, Buddy would just swim out to them. He touched many peoples lives and hearts, and I have to tell you that while I was painting his adorable face tears came to my eyes quite a few times. Buddy's life unfortunately and wrongfully ended, in my opinion by the DNR shooting him because of complaints of some neighbors. Many people are up in arms about this tragic ending. Buddy's memory will never die.
This is where you can read the whole story and
Here.
Oh, how did I find out about this story? WCCO News.
