“SOPHIE”
I’m now offering colored pastel as well as sepia and charcoal portraits!
These make really wonderful gifts!
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Thanksgiving Blog
Sarah's Update What a year this has been! Most of it has been dedicated to illustration and the publication of our book, Frog's Rainy-Day Story and Other Fables. I've been able to grab time to fit in these little paintings, which I've grown to love. I have them...
Pastel Portrait
   A dear friend, Jan Fincher, asked if I'd do a pastel portrait of her three children when they were little (being now fully grown with children of their own).    She then gave me a wonderful 3x5 photo taken many years ago of the kids in a bed of tulips!...
Out On A Limb
Out On A LimbThis piece, "Out On A Limb," was so much fun to paint! This is a watercolor on watercolor canvas, which I've never used before. Every medium has its own very distinct look. This wood stork is young. Notice that it still has tufts on the top of its head,...
The Pink Hat
"The Pink Hat" is a painting I've been wanting to do for months! A dear friend had been to Uganda, and this little girl's picture was among the photos. Her innocence was so compelling. So was the hat. Interestingly, the most difficult part for me were the hands. The...
Portrait of a very dear friend
"Doots" My childhood best friend, who died last year was just so full of life! She loved to laugh. We met in pre-nursery school, and were both "Doots." We started the renowned "Doots & Doots Detective Agency"... solving all manner of crimes...often ones that we...
Sarah Buell Dowling’s First-Ever Sale
I'm posting birds probably because it's spring, and we're moving, and I'm decidedly feeling the nesting urge. Our house has sold, but we're not clear where we're headed yet, except we know we're staying in Charleston. I want all my paintings to find a nice home...
SPRING 2015 IS HERE!
I saw this spoon in a drawer of antique silverware belonging to my mother. I was struck by this particular one and its simple beauty. I loved the way the silver caught the colors that were nearby: the orange ruler and the aqua of a glass bird. They really...
Sarah Buell Dowling Fall Blog
I've not done very many paintings in oil, nor am I a still life painter, but I recently took a workshop with Chris Groves, a very talented, Charleston-based painter, and above is the result. Oils are messy! But I LOVE that you can change up, reposition, and...
“ANITE”
Anite is a Haitian woman who works at 2nd Story Goods, a non-profit cottage industry started by my friend Kathy Brooks. She tells Anite's story below: We stand outside Anite’s tiny thatch home, the one she moved into this past June with her four children. I...
Autumn Blog
Thanks for peeking in here! Teaching is not my forte’, but I hope you enjoy this attempt to show you a bit of the watercolor process. To begin, I placed this painting on a board at about a 45° angle. I taped it down, and then started drawing. Below is a...
Spring News
Spring is here (gorgeous!), and it's time to tend to my long-overdue blog. I've been working on a number of pieces over the last months but I'm going to take you through this one that I've been painting over a number of weeks. I"m attempting a style of painting called...
What’s New This Time
I just finished my first commissioned portrait, and it was a stretch!! The difficulty with doing a portrait for someone you know is that it needs to look like them...obviously. Felder Ann has the most extraordinary eyes. I'm delighted that her parents felt that I...
What’s New
This piece, "Pensive," won first place and People's Choice Award at the Jekyll Island Art Show. This is a watercolor painting of my daughter, and what I really loved aside from her stance was the light on her blouse and her hair, and the orange of the bench. Two Old...
