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Visual Artist - Traditional and Digital

Wildlife and Animal Portfolio - Traditional (soft pastel, ink, colored pencil) and Digital

Website: view more artwork at https://kelizc.art email: kc@kelizc.art

Some of my art is for sale as prints at https://karen-conger.pixels.com. If you see something here that you like that is not on the site for sale, please contact me.

Website: https://kelizc.art email: kc@kelizc.art

In the paintings below, I painted my subject using a digital pen by referring to subject reference photograph{s} and capturing the essence of the subject(s) into a digital painting. I then merged the painting into uploaded photographs (scenery and background) using my digital art skills. This mix of techniques realistically captured my best memories of place(s) and time(s). There is a story behind every painting which I briefly tell below.

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This sweet family dog loved the winter cold and didn't want to come inside so look closely and you will see I created him as an 'ice dog' painting standing beside 'himself' in a photo with the red leash.

The winter landscape was cropped from a royalty free image I found online.

I used two photographs for the dog. One photograph was the dog in the red leash and it was imported into the canvas. The ice dog was my digital painting from a reference photograph and it was merged into the photograph, becoming part of the scene!

Personality always matters - for all living things! And Roake was captured as we all remembered him in cold weather. That heavy fur kept him warm and he loved it!

Five personal photographs were used to create this mountain scene with our three Tennessee Walking horses. The result is much prettier than the reference photos were as individual scenes and settings. I painted highlights and lowlights into the horses; and blended the ground into the horizon and sunset as needed to create the new landscape. The corral fence was erased! It is the image in my mind when I think about our time there - I never noticed the fence when that sunset popped through!

Again, personality is the key. One of our Tennessee Walking horses loved to eat and in this picture, I gave her some grass! The other two Walkers shared alpha and beta personalities as required to protect the herd. No corrals, no fences. Just mountains in the distance and the beautiful fog covering the valley. And our alpha/beta pair ever watchful. Ever beautiful!

Three of my personal photographs were merged to create a new setting and scene. I added extra mist and fog, major highlights and lowlights on our horses, and cropped the photos as needed to get the correct proportions. The magic was creating another unique scene that provides my best memories of our space and horses. The mountain, the fog, the sunrise - that was one photo and it needed touching up and some artistic work. The photo of the horses standing together watching me was from another side of the house in front of their run-ins - they always looked to see who was coming out our door! And the snow-covered blue spruce trees were on another side of the house with the wet mountain snow adorning their needles - so beautiful. Combining the three photos provided the perfect winter scene in my mind as I walked from one side of the house to another. That is what I saw when I looked out - it didn't take long to navigate the three sides of the house! And now it is captured as my mind put it together when I did the 'walk'.

My digital painting of 'boy' and 'dog' from my reference photograph is combined with my photograph of 'man', 'boy' and 'dog' on a mountain horse trail. The boy and dog painting is intentionally out of scale to emphasize it. (The 'stars' on the faces on the 'man' and 'boy' faces are inserted for public privacy display purposes only.)

The dog in the foreground is my digital painting from a reference photograph. The background is a combination of two cropped and merged photographs. The dog in the background was cropped from another of my photographs; the park photo is cropped from a royalty-free online site photograph.

Thank you for visiting my page! Explore my portfolio at https://kelizc.art to see my latest works, and feel free to connect with me about art, education, or collaboration opportunities. My email is kc@kelizc.art.

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