This is Jamie, a very large female Great Dane who belongs to a dear friend. Jamie was rescued by her owner from a terrible situation and now lives a wonderful life. This painting shows her soulful eyes and loving disposition. She is a marvelous dog.
Author: cronesinger
Pet Portrait of Mojo
This is another pet portrait that a lovely woman purchased at the Humane Society’s auction “Reigning Cats and Dogs.” Pet portraits are bid upon and the winner furnishes me several photographs to use as references.
Pet Portrait: Persian Cat
This is a portrait of a pet Persian cat. Its owner bought one of my donated “pet portraits” at the Humane Society Auction. I do the portraits using reference photographs that the owners provide. I made several studies of this cat which you can see by going to my dailypaintworks gallery. Click here.
Nepenthes Rajah
This is a ground pitcher plant and is the largest of one type of pitcher plant. It is a native of Malaysian Borneo and its pitchers have been measured at over 16 inches long. It can capture lizards, frogs, rodents and other vermin. If you would like to see more about this painting or see other omnivorous plants, click here.
Sarracenia Purpurea Pitcher Plant
This plant was used by the Algonquin, Cree, Iroquois and other native American tribes to treat small pox by means of a root infusion. The plant likes to grow in bogs, swamps, and wet, sandy meadows. To see more about this painting and to see other paintings of carnivorous plants, click here.
Sarracenia Leucophylla Pitcher Plant
This is a pitcher plant, called that because it is shaped like a pitcher. An insect is attracted by a rather rank smell and lands on the lip, and slides down a very slick inner surface where enzymes at the bottom “Stomach!” digest it. This provides the plant with needed nitrogen and phosphorus. Sarracenia have been used for medicinal purposes (but don’t try this at home!) To read an article I wrote about carnivorous plants, go to The Breeze, Magazine of the Low Country, South Carolina (February 2020).
Venus Flytrap
The Venus Flytrap is not a pitcher plant, but it is a carnivorous plant! It eats one or two insects a week. These strange carnivorous plants are found in South Carolina and some other states. The Breeze, Magazine of the Lowcountry has published an article by me about carnivorous plants. It is illustrated with photos and four of my paintings. If you would would like to read it, go to lowcountrybreeze.com.
Nepenthes Rafflesiana Pitcher Plant
This is a carnivorous pitcher plant. The Breeze, Magazine of the Lowcountry, South Carolina, has published an article by me on carnivorous plants and included four of my paintings in the February 2020 edition. . To see this edition, go tolowcountrybreeze.com
Ground Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes Ampullaria)
A South Carolina magazine, Low Country Breeze published an article I wrote about carnivorous plants in its February edition. Four of my paintings illustrated the article which also contained photographs. If you would like to read the article, go to lowcountrybreeze.com and look at the February edition. For a look at this and some of my other art on dailypaintworks.com, click here.
My latest magazine article and paintings
My latest article “An artist paints a Victorian Water closet” can now be seen online in The Breeze Magazine of the Lowcountry (May issue). To read the article and see a couple of my paintings such as the one above, click this link: lowcountrybreeze.com
While you are in the magazine you can review past issues. I have published articles in the last four issues. They occur with the caption “An Artist Paints A …”
