Custom Dog Paintings by O'Byrne

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Woof Stock 2008

Woof Stock was a great success. A lot of wonderful people with their sweet dogs visited my booth and signed up for custom watercolor paintings of their loved ones. It was a wonderful event with dog games and competitions. The weather was perfect.

Today the Lucky Winners from the Woof Stock Drawing were announced via email for the prize of a Custom O'Byrne Pet Painting. They have 2 weeks to claim their prize. Otherwise another winner will be announced!

New Neigbors- Twins!!!

I've been keeping an eye on my neighbors since they are two feet away from my studio window. The Parents are very protective of their kids, especially as there is a mocking neighbor nearby. I was watering the flowers today and I spotted Mom with her kids, so I had to take a photo! ok you know who I'm talking about, its the O'Bird family, aren't they precious ;-) Mom if you are reading this all birds are beautiful even the pigeons and black birds! they just have different personalities! My mother loves birds except for the latter so I have to give her a hard time and any of you who feel the same :-) that includes me as I was ready to buy a bebe gun for the Mocking Bird, ok I know bebe is a fashion label, as I worked on that account, just not sure how to spell beebee gun?? so many ways! So I purchased an fake Owl to scare the Mocking bird away...hey it worked for a week and I was thrilled... now he's back... Plan B... still TBD....if you have any other ideas please let me know. Thankfully these babies are safe as he didn't eat these eggs ;-)

Framing Day-Abstract

This week I started working on preparing paintings and prints for my upcoming shows.
I framed this painting of an abstract which I call "Roller Coaster". It reminds me of all the feelings and the wild colors of everything flashing by you as you scream with excitement and exhilaration. Wind whipping at your face and hair, not knowing whats going to happen next, all very exciting and uplifting!

Still Life at Barbaras Place

While I was house sitting I painted this still life with Barbaras home items, It was fun and I loved the way it turned out. Something soothing about dairy products and I must say the eggs, cheese, cream and butter are absolutely delicious in Ireland, i do miss these, but luckly I can buy my kerrygold butter here at Trader Joes and Ralphs!

Imagination

Sometimes its fun to just paint pictures from memory. I remember seeing a scene like this somewhere in a book or magazine so I tried to recapture the feeling of a snowing evening.

The Golf Swing!

I thought I'd paint a Golfer inspired by my friends Barbara and Jeremy who let me house sit for them and paint in their lovely patio surrounded by beautiful roses and flowers. I was there for 3 days in Oceanside and had a great time checking out the local scenery. I'm working on large piece of the view of their patio which I'll upload later. Barbara, Jeremy, my brother and Dad are all golfers so this one is for you ;-) Declan my older brother lives in Scotland where the game started and he is a avid player with a scratch handicap. I on the other hand love the driving range where you can whack the daylights out of the balls and then the putting green where at least you can see what you are aiming for, but forget about the part in between!! I'll stick with Tennis.

Collecting Sea Shells

Walking along La Jolla Shores with my friend Kimberly we saw so many interesting shells. We met 2 women with their kids who were so cute playing in the sand making sand castles. I asked them if I could take some photos of their kids for a painting which I'll do later. This painting was inspired from that day. "Finding Sea Shells" watercolor.

Lifeguard - what a life!!

Another fabulous day in La Jolla, I couldn't resist painting this Lifeguard, boy is that a nice job sitting in his little green hut with a spectacular view! I sat on the wall and painted this painting 7"x10" which will frame at 11x14 for ArtWalk. I will have a limited number of this size originals for a very special offer of $59 during ArtWalk which is April 26th and 27th. (Booth 511 at Date/India St)

Seal Beach

This past week was so much fun, I was painting in La Jolla when my friend Caroline called from New Zealand, next minute she says I can meet you in a couple of hours! Rudi her husband is a pilot for Singapore Airlines and he flies the LA Singapore route, a 16 hour flight, all business class! I've known them both for over 20 years and Caroline and myself were flight attendants back in the 80s. They used to live in Singapore and just recently moved to New Zealand where they now call home. They arrived in La Jolla right at Seal Beach and it was so great to catch up. We had a lovely meal at Georges above the Cove. Above is he painting I was working on.

Mar 24th-30th Entries juried into SDWS Show

"I love You Mom" Giraffe Mother & Child
Watercolor 36" x 24"

Last week I started getting ready for ArtWalk, there is a lot to do and time is flying by.
I also entered 2 paintings into the April Show at the San Diego Watercolor Society and just found out today that they were both juried in so I am delighted as it was a tough show with a lot of experts entering due to cash prizes. So my Giraffe Painting made it along with a small still life so I am extremely honored.




Hillcrest and Little Italy Paintings are 11x14 Framed Size

These 2 paintings belong to a series I'm working on for ArtWalk. I hope you can make it the weekend of April 26th and 27th. My booth number is 511 and I'm located just outside the Pensione Hotel close to the corner of Date & India Street. See my painting below... I'll be on the other side of the Pensione Hotel towards the city center :)