Preview ~ Sky Rider ...a new oil

SKY RIDER

12x12

SOLD

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

CAROL CHRETIEN

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This new painting is available to assist

Dalmatian Rescue Tampa Bay

125.00

PAYPAL is welcome

email to purchase:

carolchretien@aol.com

DONATION

100% to the rescue minus shipping.

Help this rescue with a purchase of collectible art.

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About the painting:

This piece is another of multiple glazes of color to achieve the depth and glow of light. A bit of drama in this Moonscape that draws you in and hopefully takes you to a mystical reverie.

One of the good things about having been away from painting for the last year was that it gave me a renewed perspective about just what it was that I enjoyed so much about my favorite medium, and my approach to painting.

I enjoy taking the time now to glaze and relax with the work. Live with it a bit

and sit back and change a passage here or tweak a stroke there.

And color...there is nothing I like better than playing with color and light.

So if this piece of art appeals to you and you want to have it...

let me know.

In the meantime

don't forget about the purpose behind the passion to create...

visit:

http://www.dalrescuetampabay.org/

and help a great rescue out!

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PINTO is still up for adoption through

Dalmatian Rescue Tampa Bay!

read all about him here:

http://www.carolchretien.blogspot.com/2012/03/previewwhite-rose-new-original-oil.html

Thanks for looking.

PREVIEW....White Rose ~ a new original oil

WHITE ROSE

SOLD

8x8

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

CAROL CHRETIEN

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My first offering for ART HELPING ANIMALS for 2012 is my vision of the white rose that symbolizes the Spiritual.

This particular piece is a small one painted in many thin glazes to allow the illusion of light to come through representing backlighting.

It captures the impression of luminosity and a delicate layering of petals.

The canvas is wrapped around the stretchers and the sides are painted. It can be framed or displayed as is.

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100.00

100% of the sale (minus shipping) will go directly to

DALMATIAN RESCUE of TAMPA BAY

a non-profit, all volunteer rescue that works tirelessly to save

Dalmatians and others from high kill shelters, discarded pets, and seniors at end of life care.

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This particular painting is dedicated to the dalmatian mix who was saved from a shelter at AGE 8 where he was sent by his family.

MEET PINTO

(Pinto's Shelter Picture)
Imagine living with your family for 8 years and they leave you in a shelter?
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He is 58 lbs, very loving and has made friends with his foster home's Dalmatian
"Charlie"
In the beginning he was very depressed and mourning the loss of his family.
He was not eating and he was suffering from shelter cough.
NOW...he is healthy, adjusting to the loving care he is receiving and is ready for a family of his own.
If you can help this wonderful boy...please consider adoption.
All the details and contacts with DRTB can be found here:
http://www.dalrescuetampabay.org/

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It is always GREAT that a pet gets a foster home but for the volunteers to be successful and help others in need they have to find that FOREVER HOME for their foster pet.
Thanks for viewing the painting and the information about PINTO.
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this painting will be posted for sale on Art Helping Animals
Art Collectors Blog, The Daily Painter's Gallery and directly from me.
email: carolchretien@aol.com
to purchase immediately with this preview.
Shipping is free to you.
Paypal is always accepted.
The purchase price will go straight to the Rescue.
ART HELPS ANIMALS
thank you!

A Time For Giving...

From now until the end of the year we are thinking about

How Can We Help?

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The 14th Annual Four Paws Charity Auction for Homeless Cats and Dogs

November 20th 6:30-9:00PM

at HAWTHORNE COUNTRY CLUB

Dartmouth, MA

www.animaladvocatesma.org

These 2 framed prints of my original oils will be part of the Auction this year!

100% donation

If you are in the area, please consider this event for helping homeless animals!

There will be many different items available beside artwork.

They do a wonderful job all year long working to help homeless animals.

share your blessings!

That Christmas Feeling

For me....Is about creating moments on canvas that will help homeless animals.

Giving with an open heart...these Christmas paintings will help rescue.

25.00 from each sale goes straight to rescue.

Free Domestic Shipping!

He's A Gift

12x12

125.00

25.00 donation to a BEAGLE rescue!

www.paypal.com

please send payment to carolchretien@aol.com

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KITTEN CHRISTMAS

10x10

oil on canvas

125.00

25.00 DONATION to the rescue of YOUR choice!

www.paypal.com

please send payment to

carolchretien@aol.com

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Cape Cod Beagle Christmas
SOLD

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GIFT CERTIFICATE ANNOUNCEMENTS
available to
GIFT for the Holidays
Book a painting for the
NEW YEAR!
details below!
http://carolchretien.blogspot.com/2010/09/merry-christmas-oh-you-heard-right.html

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STUDIO "C" SALE BLOG
details below!
http://aheart4art-carolchretien.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-ever-studio-christmas-sale.html

Munchkin ...a dog with a chance!

Meet Munchkin!

12x12

oil on canvas

Munchkin Gets A Chance

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FALMOUTH FRIENDS OF DOGS RESCUE

Falmouth MA

is helping this dog have a real chance at a comfortable life.

Meet Munchkin (below) and read the story of what they are doing for this wonderful young dog.

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Bilateral Knee Surgery Dog With a Chance At a Good Life!

http://www.friendsoffalmouthdogs.org/munchkinsurgery.html


5.00 or the cost of a fancy "drive-thru" coffee will enter your name in the raffle for this painting.
I hope you can see some love in those eyes.
Munchkin is a dog who has some good people on board to help.

If you love to help and love Original Canine Art...this is a WIN - WIN for you.
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ALL THE PROCEEDS HELP SUPPORT CHARITY
Please click the link above and do what you can.
The drawing for this painting will be done in January.
Please pass this link forward to anyone who might be interested in giving Munchkin a Chance.

Many Blessings To You!

Spooky Happenings Today....BEAGLES! FIRST LOOK!

"I WILL BEE HAPPY"
8x10
100.00
You can RESERVE this painting by emailing me:
carolchretien@aol.com
20% goes to rescue!

"WISH ON THE MOON"
10 x10
125.00
You can RESERVE this painting by emailing me:
carolchretien@aol.com

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Today I started the day with gathering some refs of BONES beagles up for adoption. They have several wonderful beagles in foster care they are preparing for their "forever homes"...2 beagles in particular caught my eye and I thought they would inspire some new work. "DEBO" and "BO" are there names.
As I was printing out the images I was thinking of my friend Pam, who is a BONES volunteer, and a few seconds later I received an email with a batch of images from the yearly BONES BEAGLE BASH.
There were a bunch of DEBO in the batch and I suddenly had my paintings taking shape in my mind.
I asked Pam if she could give me some more background about Debo as we hope he can get adopted to his own home and I want to tell his story.
SHE got an email from his foster mom telling her that not 10 minutes before she was just talking about his situation with the wonderful person who originally pulled him from the shelter he was found in.
So today was a day of hopefully VERY good vibes for Debo.
These are 2 works in progress that will be ready to go soon.
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Both paintings are inspired by Debo and his information can be found
here:
www.bonesbeagles.org

If you see paintings here in FIRST LOOK and love them,
please reserve them for purchase.
When they are gone...they are gone.
Thanks so much for helping homeless animals with art!

Wrapping up some loose ends....

....before the next season begins.

You may have seen some of these in progress and now they are pretty much completed (with the exception of the Dalmatian, Mercury, in the center) which is soon to be done, just need a little drying time between sessions.

The studio is humming along today and nothing is getting in the way.

"FOLEY"

"Portrait of Foley"

Is a gift to the Friends of Bristol Animal Shelter who do work in my local area.

They lost their beloved mascot unexpectedly earlier this year.

My philosophy is that Art is Therapeutic and helps heal hearts.

I hope they can place the painting in an area of their shelter that does just that.

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"MERCURY"

This painting is for a friend who is missing her wonderful Mercury.

He passed over the Rainbow Bridge recently and is in the best company you could ask for.

I have a little more to do to finish this up but made some real progress today and thought I would share it.

There needs to be one more pass to it to finish it up and be able to send it off.

I met Mercury when he was a youngster and rescued by a loving family.

He got along great with my Lizzie and it was my pleasure to be able to meet him in person.

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"CLEOPATRA"

This painting was one of the prizes donated to the JRT fundraiser.

Over the years I have done many "win a custom painting" fundraiser.

This painting was a lot of fun for me to do.

And if you would like to read about the org:

http://www.russellrescue.com/index.php4

Russell Rescue, Inc.

A non-profit rescue that works coast to coast and has many regional chapters.

Love Jack Russells?

check them out and rescue a dog!

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In between these paintings I am hard at work for

ART HELPING ANIMALS

painting for our rescues!

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AND NEXT....

THE CHRISTMAS COMMISSIONS!

if anyone is contemplating the gift of art BEFORE the holidays

BOOK EARLY ...

LIMITED NUMBER of BOOKINGS AVAILABLE.

JUST A THOUGHT!

stay tuned!

August - New Month, New Work...in progress

This first piece is the inspired by photos I took of a friend's dogs and this is the "blocking in stage" of the first pass. I will be offering this oil painting to help one of our Art Helping Animals supported rescues. This husky is so beautifully marked. She is a very shy girl and that gave me the working title:

SHADOW GIRL

RESERVED

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FIRST LIGHT OF FALL

This new Dalmatian piece is all about temperature and seasonal color along with pattern and light.

I will list this one for SAVE THE DALMATIANS one of our Dalmatian rescues that Art Helping Animals supports through art sales.
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UP DATE ....

Adding pieces of the gate to this one .... designing as I go.

Will be adjusting here and there before it is done.

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You have to enjoy the journey and not just the destination in creative projects.

I do enjoy sharing the process...hopefully you enjoy watching the paintings develop.

STAY TUNED!

First Look! BLACK DOG ZEN

9x12

oil on canvas
Brady was my inspiration for this painting, he is the Black Lab of my friend Tracy.

He loves the beach as any Labrador does.

The minimal scape with the billowing clouds and waving dune grass lend a peaceful sensibility.

The black lab surveys the sea below.

This painting is available to help the dogs in final refuge care or senior foster care through

OLD DOG HAVEN

an Art Helping Animals supported rescue.

you can purchase this painting

20% goes to the rescue

SOLD

Black dogs are the hardest to find homes for and are a special favorite of Judith at

Old Dog Haven. visit their site http://www.olddoghaven.org/ for adoption info or to sponsor an needy dog in their care.

FIRST LOOK! - Those Golden Days

SOLD

DETAIL

THOSE GOLDEN DAYS
12x12
oil on canvas
CAROL CHRETIEN
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This is the update of one of the latest paintings for rescue.
I have finally been able to work on the ones I started last week. I have been painting beach scenes in hopes of the sunshine returning to our New England area. We have some today and it is glorious. The same feeling as the expression and smile of this dog at the beach.
the model was Mattie Mae a friend of Art Helping Animals artist Stella Violano.
She was my inspiration for the work. I love her happy face.
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It is listed to help
HSUS NRRO
that is to say:
The Humane Society of the United States
the
NORTHERN ROCKIES REGIONAL OFFICE
one of our official Art Helping Animals supported rescues.
20% to the rescue

150.00

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thanks for helping homeless animals with art!

She's A Jersey Girl ...and she is adopted!

SOLD

She's A Jersey Girl

I was planning on listing this painting as finally completed and now available... In the meantime it sold.
The BEST NEWS is she was adopted after I had decided to paint her, coincidence?

I had a run on beagle adoptions from BONES a while back where they got adopted as I was painting away! LOL I was a lucky charm they said! :o)

I did something different for this painting...I did a study of the painting first.
In actuality...I started it, got into it and then noticed a big defect in the weave of the canvas that was not something I would sell to anyone. But I went ahead and finished the first draft (not for sale!) I almost never to preliminary drawings...sometimes a few "thumbnail sketches to work out the composition...but never a pre-painting a painting, it is just not my way.

What I learned from that unexpected exercise was painting Tori Jem the second time was really much easier. I knew her by then. I also enlarged the canvas size and pushed her back so you could see more of her and widened the view of the ocean. So it was a great lesson.

I know many artists practice this regularly but painting small pieces for charity usually is pretty straight forward and I dive right into the piece always starting with the eyes.

Today this piece sold for charity but I did want to show it finished. Now if the other in-progress paintings in my studio could just dry a bit....I could finish a few more!

Donation to GREYHOUND FRIENDS OF NEW JERSEY honoring Tori Jem is on the way as promised!