"GREAT BLUE" At last I am finally painting! "Great Blue"Â (oil on canvas) has been a long time in the making. The piece below is the initial painting. I love the blues in that piece but I was more interested in achieving a more natural look. I've done few landscapes,...
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 where they’ll be loved and bring a smile or provoke a thought. The best way to do that, one would think, would be to have a sale.
All my paintings will be anywhere from 20% to 25% reduced. Gag!
I’m hoping this blog will, perhaps, cause you to feel the nesting urge, and bring one of these paintings into your home.
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This little Wren just found a home! He was grabbed on Instagram before the sale even began!!
I had to paint this Wren as he’s been sitting on my kitchen window sill chirping his heart out. I figured he was singing “paint me!” And so I did.
COME TO MY STUDIO!
1393 SOUTHERN MAGNOLIA LANE MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464
Friday, March 31 ~ 4 – 9pm
Fall Blog 2015
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...
May Blog
I painted this somewhat abstract painting, "Cautious" in response to seeing a photo of my aunt (taken somewhere around the mid-1930s) hiding in the back of a room peopled with mostly old women wearing assorted hats and solid shoes - perhaps, a garden club...
Cautious
Taking Off
Two Old Friends
Pensive
Anite
Felder Ann
Ram In the thicket
Dusk
Grey Day @ Gould’s Inlet
Watercolor on Arches cold press paper.
Just Fishing IV
"Just Fishing" is a watercolor done on Arches cold press paper.
Hydrangeas
Poppies
Early Spring Blog
A season in my life comes to a close. Time to see what’s next.