BRIGHT CONTEMPORARY DRESSAGE HORSE

This boy is hanging on my wall while I contemplate it's name...This painting has to be admired in person to fully appreciate the incredible depth of the colors...Once varnished the colors will pop even more and the painting will scream WOW...

COOPERATION in SWEAT
24 x 24 Acrylics on Stretched Canvas

Available www.olgawagner.com

CONTEMPORARY PEAR ON RED in ACRYLICS

Moving on to the red palette and as always shooting for color and drama... I am getting ready for a Group Show in January at the Local Color Gallery in Raleigh. This show will be the unveiling my Acrylic collection. The opening reception will be on January 6th from 6-9 pm. Stop buy for an evening of great art and wine, cheese and fruit!

CENTER STAGE
12 x 12 Acrylics on Stretched Canvas

Available $225 (include S&H)

Excerpt from my sketch book...I like to play and see various compositions in action before moving onto canvas.

Various paintings in my hallway...

BRIGHT LILY - TEXTURED WITH PALETTE KNIFE

Here is a re-vamped lily - with much more in your face textured color palette...The older rendition, though nice, did not scream "me"...Way too safe and boring...

ALL ABOUT ME
12x 24 Oil on Canvas panel

Available www.olgawagner.com

Close-up of texture

Original (2009 version)

SLUMBER SERIES - SLEEPING ORANGE TABBY CAT

GUESS WHAT...Here is another angel deep in his slumber. Do I smell a new series in the making? Maybe... Sleeping Angels...Sleeping Innocence...Must think of a great name...

This is Puglsey, a 5 year old Devon Rex boy, whose most favorite summer-time activity is to hunt large, flying grasshoppers. He looks so innocent while dreaming of his next grasshopper victim (LOL)...

SLEEPING BEAUTY
6x6 Oil on Panel
Available - $100

FACES of RESCUE - ELVIS 59/100

This boy was rescued by his owner about 7 years ago. According to the vet, it appeared as if he was thrown out of a moving car.

I really had fun with the RED/ORANGE color scheme on this painting!

ELVIS - 8x8 Oil on Panel
SOLD

Sleeping Beauty

BOSTON PUP ON RED

Here I go again...Last few days I have been suffering from an artist block...I sort of misplaced my MOJO... This was my attempt at regaining my feel for the brushes...I went very loose and painterly with this boy...Hope you like it...

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"RED CARPET PUP" - 6 x 12 Oil on Board

Available

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PEAR STUDY

I managed to paint couple of small pear studies before devouring the tasty fruit...I was relatively happy with the way the first one (the bottom picture) came out , but it did not feel right..It was not me..It was too plain...With animals, I like to have fun with cropping and colors, but for some reason I thought that with fruit you could not do it..But then I tried and found that my FUN style worked quite nicely with this pear. Next, I must try an apple or a lemon !!!

"Corner Pear" - 4x4 Oil on Panel

Available

"Pear Study" - 6x6 Oil on Masonite

Available

Felines - Two more

Couple more paintings that will be exhibited at Local Color Gallery of Raleigh starting February 4th.

"In Safe Hands" - 11 x 14 Oil on Canvas

Available

"to be named"- 16 x 20 Oil on Canvas

Available

Biggs - Work in Progress

It has been a while since I painted Mr.Biggelsworth (aka Biggs) - I looked at his picture that always hangs in my studio and knew that it was time for another creation. He really was an incredible, once in a lifetime cat and a day doesn't go by that I don't miss him terribly.

This is still very much work in progress. I just figured that it would be fun to share my painting process.

This is done on a 16x20 stretched canvas that was first primed with grey gessoe.

I used a viewfinder to decide on an interesting cropping and then used a soft pastel to roughly sketch out the boy. The three photos show the progression of the paint application. With Biggsy, I normally let my heart do the painting - and once the basic shapes are laid out, I barely ever look at the photo...

Omalley

Another Christmas order - Omalley goes with Lizzie, Liza and Frida...

"Omalley" - 6x6x1.5 Oil on Canvas

NFS

Lizzie - Red and White

LOVE the red and whites!!! This is Lizzie- what a precious face!

"Lizzie" - 6 x 6 x1.5 Oil on Canvas

NFS

Ryder the Golden

I think bright red works really well for this youngster - It screams Happy...Happy...Happy Dog!!!

"Ryder" 16x20x1.5 Oil on Canvas

NFS

Poppy

Another close-up floral. Here is one happy looking poppy done on a gallery style canvas.

"Poppy" - 12 x 12 x 1.5 Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Available

And the wiener is....

"And the wiener is...."- 6x6 Oil on Canvas Panel

Available

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Here is a miniature Dachshund boy. I painted this one on a red gessoed canvas panel. It was an interesting experience painting on a bright red surface and I will use it again in the future.

After Rehearsal

"After Rehearsal" - 6x6 Oil on Canvas Panel

Available

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This is supposed to be a painting of my "little red dress" - It did not fit so well (shrunk in the closet - LOL) when I tried it on the other night.