tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807693761520405272012-01-24T16:15:29.208-07:00A painting a day is the goal, but for now, as often as possible.Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-19851414982206034192011-11-01T14:04:00.001-06:002012-01-03T15:39:25.071-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WuDJ3Y_EMV0/TrBIzh_RY4I/AAAAAAAABHI/o_ky92te_1I/s1600/1125+Olympia+The+Seductress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WuDJ3Y_EMV0/TrBIzh_RY4I/AAAAAAAABHI/o_ky92te_1I/s320/1125+Olympia+The+Seductress.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olympia, The Seductress</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9 x 12 inches&nbsp;</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oil on wood panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Édouard</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Manet is considered by many to be the father of Impressionism. &nbsp;In 1863, he painted, <i>Olympia</i>, a nude that was seen by many as scandalous. &nbsp;What shocked people was not the nudity itself, there had been many other nudes before Manet's, but it was the fact that she seemed so comfortable in her nudity and the intense look directly at the viewer. &nbsp;That is what I am trying to do with this painting. &nbsp;Show a lovely woman in a pose that clearly says she is at ease with herself, and willing to look the viewer in the eye. &nbsp;This work was inspired by a photo of model, Luba Korovina, taken by Russian photographer, Oleg Kosyrev, (</span><a href="http://www.photosight.ru/users/2063/">http://www.photosight.ru/users/2063/</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">) who graciously allowed me to use it for reference.&nbsp;</span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ihzreM65Yf0/TrBI3LiNjMI/AAAAAAAABHQ/PUyo8sFIqNs/s1600/1125+Olympia+The+Seductress+crp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ihzreM65Yf0/TrBI3LiNjMI/AAAAAAAABHQ/PUyo8sFIqNs/s320/1125+Olympia+The+Seductress+crp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This work is currently for sale on the Daily Paintworks Art site. <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/21484">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/21484</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you click on the photos to enlarge them, also click on the link,&nbsp;</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Show Originals to see the largest size.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">_______</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olympia, by&nbsp;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Édouard</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Manet</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TAkHm2U6Ews/TrBLB04_-HI/AAAAAAAABHY/8Y4vzEoVrwc/s1600/E.Manet+-+Olympia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TAkHm2U6Ews/TrBLB04_-HI/AAAAAAAABHY/8Y4vzEoVrwc/s320/E.Manet+-+Olympia.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-decoration: none;">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1985141498220603419?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-39030553677474562042011-08-24T13:51:00.004-06:002011-08-24T14:12:50.743-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9XUOHf_I85s/TlVWhFCK8qI/AAAAAAAABHA/fyX3JbO-n74/s1600/1124%2BMichigan%2BFarm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> <br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9XUOHf_I85s/TlVWhFCK8qI/AAAAAAAABHA/fyX3JbO-n74/s320/1124%2BMichigan%2BFarm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644512834265739938" /></a> <br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Michigan Farm <br />9 x 12 inches <br />Oil on wood panel.</div><div style="text-align: left; "> <br /></div></span><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Recently, when I was back in Coldwater, Michigan for a visit, my sister, Robin Walling, and I drove around to find scenes that I might want to paint. It was cloudy at the time, but this barn appealed to me. It is at the corner of Bell Road and Hayner Road, north of Girard. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here to see the paintings that I may currently have on eBay</a>.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></p></span></div></div></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3903055367747456204?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-53831581153052162312011-08-12T12:12:00.002-06:002011-08-12T12:27:56.553-06:00<div> <br /></div><div> <br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SfUSfAPJNHw/TkVtLKk-OEI/AAAAAAAABG4/pwS3ABpsfYk/s1600/1123-Mallard.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SfUSfAPJNHw/TkVtLKk-OEI/AAAAAAAABG4/pwS3ABpsfYk/s320/1123-Mallard.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5640034146936830018" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Mallard</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; "> <br /></div></div></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Over the years, I have taken many photos of ducks and geese. I finally decided it was time to paint one. </span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div><b> <br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I may have listed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5383158115305216231?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-64110704106185947062011-07-22T14:54:00.001-06:002011-07-22T15:04:48.398-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kma2T-Jy8Eg/TinlYdefx4I/AAAAAAAABFs/xveJzCNmDi0/s1600/1122-Face-to-Face.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 314px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kma2T-Jy8Eg/TinlYdefx4I/AAAAAAAABFs/xveJzCNmDi0/s320/1122-Face-to-Face.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632285017395677058" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Face to Face</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >This is based on a photo I took in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. I liked the way it looked as if they were gazing into each other's eyes.</span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I may have listed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></span></div></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6411070410618594706?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-80307229692135185902011-07-18T11:42:00.002-06:002011-07-18T11:45:30.660-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QsLNTkKN4uI/TiRxLUq2osI/AAAAAAAABFk/5m4-8Nriku8/s1600/1121%2BMonument%2BValley.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QsLNTkKN4uI/TiRxLUq2osI/AAAAAAAABFk/5m4-8Nriku8/s320/1121%2BMonument%2BValley.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630749873460912834" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Monument Valley</div><div style="text-align: center; ">18 x 24inches</div><div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center; ">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Monument Valley is a remarkable place. When you visit, it will stay with you forever. The vastness of it is incredible and that sky, well, it takes your breath away. One of the interesting things we noticed is that the white clouds had a red cast to them on the bottom, from the reflection from the ground. When I got home, I just couldn't get the vision of this place out of my mind. This was a joy to paint.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I may have listed.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">I also have paintings available on www.dailypaintworks.com. To see them, click on this link,<a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/bbrauker-1324" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/bbrauker-1324</a></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br /><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8030722969213518590?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-85025304916420882692011-06-30T12:20:00.004-06:002011-06-30T12:37:15.542-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SbwsOaqJHiI/AAAAAAAAAx8/ZSTu3pnHoXw/s1600-h/0918-Flying-Eagle500.jpg" style="color: rgb(170, 221, 153); text-decoration: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SbwsOaqJHiI/AAAAAAAAAx8/ZSTu3pnHoXw/s320/0918-Flying-Eagle500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313170286576213538" border="0" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 250px; " /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; ">Decorah Eagle<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is my tribute to the Decorah eagles.</div><br />For the past months, I have been watching daily as the eaglets have grown from the little balls of feathers that emerged from their eggs in early April, to the large flying eagles they are today. As they learn how to hunt and perfect their flying skills, they are still hanging around the nest in Decorah, IA. To see the web cam, click here: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles">http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles</a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">There is nothing more magnificent than seeing an eagle in flight. As John Denver put it, "I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an Eagle fly, Rocky mountain high..."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one.</a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; "><span style="font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></p></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8502530491642088269?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-91944056385460392412011-06-27T13:52:00.004-06:002011-06-27T14:05:24.651-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b3s65kv_d0I/Tgjf3XqTMzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/MnDJWM7fYAE/s1600/1120-Morning-Wave.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 158px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b3s65kv_d0I/Tgjf3XqTMzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/MnDJWM7fYAE/s320/1120-Morning-Wave.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622990277109297970" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Morning Wave,<br />Huntington Beach, California</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; ">Early morning on the beach is a magical time. I love painting the waves. </div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I may have listed.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br /></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">I also have paintings available on www.dailypaintworks.com. To see them, click on this link, <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/bbrauker-1324">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/bbrauker-1324</a></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br /><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></div></span></span><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Detail of the painting.</span></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyCkDI1O4Ek/Tgjfs_tgNEI/AAAAAAAABFI/G8UNYd3P48M/s1600/1120-Morning-Wave-detail.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 290px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XyCkDI1O4Ek/Tgjfs_tgNEI/AAAAAAAABFI/G8UNYd3P48M/s320/1120-Morning-Wave-detail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622990098881590338" /></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-9194405638546039241?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-37662125217529131922011-06-16T15:29:00.004-06:002011-06-16T15:47:58.348-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GRXKbKPdTI8/Tfp558u8MaI/AAAAAAAABE4/g7LbvtpaVx4/s1600/1119-Montana-Sky.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 315px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GRXKbKPdTI8/Tfp558u8MaI/AAAAAAAABE4/g7LbvtpaVx4/s320/1119-Montana-Sky.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618937521560629666" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Montana Sky</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span">This is based on a photo I took in Montana, on the way to the Little Bighorn Battlefield. It was a beautiful, sunny September day.</span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3766212521752913192?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-40242351776915553802011-06-13T14:26:00.004-06:002011-06-13T14:31:22.668-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0bmOfUqtvkQ/TfZyrq-4qWI/AAAAAAAABEg/zZgJFfqBrg8/s1600/1118-Shadows-Rio-Grande-.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0bmOfUqtvkQ/TfZyrq-4qWI/AAAAAAAABEg/zZgJFfqBrg8/s320/1118-Shadows-Rio-Grande-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617803679789263202" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Shadows on the Rio Grande Gorge, Taos</div><div style="text-align: center; ">11x 14inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div></div></div></span></span><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >This is a view of the Rio Grande Gorge, as seen from the high road from Santa Fe to Taos. </span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Detail of the painting.</span><br /><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bka4TeEmwI8/TfZyl4ySkgI/AAAAAAAABEY/yf5mKVL9-gA/s1600/1118-Shadows-on-the-Rio-Gra.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 145px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bka4TeEmwI8/TfZyl4ySkgI/AAAAAAAABEY/yf5mKVL9-gA/s320/1118-Shadows-on-the-Rio-Gra.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617803580415316482" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4024235177691555380?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-45266943673533109142011-06-06T15:31:00.003-06:002011-10-03T10:56:40.219-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XPE0j2S3f90/Te1IgQTRZaI/AAAAAAAABEQ/uOknFhYDyQk/s1600/1117-Red-Dress.jpg"><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5615224029369689506" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XPE0j2S3f90/Te1IgQTRZaI/AAAAAAAABEQ/uOknFhYDyQk/s320/1117-Red-Dress.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 254px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Red Dress</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">11 x 14 inches </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Oil on canvas.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />SOLD</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Lovely lady preparing for a night out in her red dress.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none;">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I may have listed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://brauker.com</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4526694367353310914?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-80170972350298991192011-05-24T14:53:00.004-06:002011-09-24T11:52:24.229-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w1TUX6duYrA/Tdwh3oke27I/AAAAAAAABEE/ixZH8JELJAw/s1600/1116%2BLotus%2BBlossom%2BBuds.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610396475463752626" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w1TUX6duYrA/Tdwh3oke27I/AAAAAAAABEE/ixZH8JELJAw/s320/1116%2BLotus%2BBlossom%2BBuds.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Lotus Blossom Buds</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">oil on wood panel<br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I just loved the variety of color on these buds. The painting was inspired by a photograph taken by Guy Pushee, a fantastic photographer from, Wilmington, NC, who graciously allowed me to use his terrific shot. Check out his wonderful work here, <a href="http://www.guypushee.com/">http://www.guypushee.com</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none;">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8017097235029899119?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-74494842961836967412011-05-22T15:44:00.002-06:002011-05-23T10:01:10.410-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Umk38vd7kM4/TdmD8q9TUlI/AAAAAAAABDk/5aWHV6qEFXM/s1600/1115-Kitty.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Umk38vd7kM4/TdmD8q9TUlI/AAAAAAAABDk/5aWHV6qEFXM/s320/1115-Kitty.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609659889213461074" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; ">Pretty Kitty</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">oil on wood panel<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; ">This painting was done for "The Whole Cat and Kaboodle Challenge" at http://www.dailypaintworks.com</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; 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font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7449484296183696741?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-79007795596506614322011-05-16T14:09:00.004-06:002011-05-16T14:17:23.752-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mnzEM-mBmX8/TdGE3O1BXlI/AAAAAAAABDc/T7sJs5uffVk/s1600/1114-California-House.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mnzEM-mBmX8/TdGE3O1BXlI/AAAAAAAABDc/T7sJs5uffVk/s320/1114-California-House.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607409095461133906" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: center; ">California House</div><div style="text-align: center; ">6 x 6 inches </div><div style="text-align: center; ">oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">This is based on a photo I took from the car on Pacific Coast Highway, I think in Huntington Beach, CA. (Might have been Laguna.) It was a beautiful bright day, and I loved the flowers by the wall. </div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "></span></span></span></p><div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com">http://brauker.com</a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Detail of the painting.</div></span><div style="text-align: center; "><br /><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cjHvZ3Au0K8/TdGEwF7VkRI/AAAAAAAABDU/ljSoL6CZvQA/s320/1114-California-House-detai.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607408972812620050" /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7900779559650661432?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-71480068122473451552011-05-14T12:19:00.004-06:002011-05-14T12:25:37.896-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NooIXG6qtk0/Tc7IOIVBt_I/AAAAAAAABDM/6--lUmYPX-w/s1600/1113-Canyon-de-Chelly.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NooIXG6qtk0/Tc7IOIVBt_I/AAAAAAAABDM/6--lUmYPX-w/s320/1113-Canyon-de-Chelly.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606638731202246642" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Canyon de Chelly</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">6 x 6 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Oil on wood panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; "><span>Canyon de Chelly National Monument </span><span>is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. It preserves ruins of the early tribes that lived in the area</span><span>. The canyon also sustains a living community of Navajo people, who are connected to a landscape of great historical and spiritual significance. </span><span>Access to the canyon floor is restricted, and visitors are allowed to travel in the canyons only when accompanied by a park ranger or an authorized Navajo guide.</span></span></div><div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">It is possible to see wonderful views of the canyon from both the north and south rims. This view of the canyon is based on a photo I took at the Antelope House overlook. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "></span></span></span></p><div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">http://brauker.com</div><p></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7148006812247345155?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-62214660325445125852011-05-06T12:35:00.002-06:002011-05-06T12:45:38.990-06:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xcZ8HUmwrWM/TcQ_qrkqwnI/AAAAAAAABDE/-hRiPXQ_p5k/s1600/1112-Valley-of-the-Gods.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xcZ8HUmwrWM/TcQ_qrkqwnI/AAAAAAAABDE/-hRiPXQ_p5k/s320/1112-Valley-of-the-Gods.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603673838839317106" /></a><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Valley of the Gods</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >6 x 6 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Oil on wood panel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >(c) Bill Brauker</span></div></div><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">One of the most remarkable places on earth is the Valley of the Gods, a scenic sandstone valley near Mexican Hat, Utah. A 17 mile dirt road meanders among the towering rock formations in this beautiful valley. We got up just before dawn and were there at first light. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "></span></span></span></p><div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >http://brauker.com</span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6221466032544512585?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-29750369719859921082011-04-26T14:08:00.006-06:002011-04-26T16:28:55.735-06:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oWpFGcN-aG4/Tbcm6ih9C-I/AAAAAAAABC8/srM-0iAD8dA/s1600/1111-Trees-at-Pt-Vincente.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oWpFGcN-aG4/Tbcm6ih9C-I/AAAAAAAABC8/srM-0iAD8dA/s320/1111-Trees-at-Pt-Vincente.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599987448801987554" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Trees at Point Vincente</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Oil on wood panel.</div><div style="text-align: center; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><br /></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">Last week when we were in California, we visited Point Vincente in Palos Verdes. It is a beautiful place where there is a path along the top of the cliff that overlooks the ocean below. These trees were not far from the edge. I loved the way they were bent away from the ocean by the winds. </div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">A closer look.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8mdOeGQaDjY/Tbcmn8XmN5I/AAAAAAAABC0/H9NEOURjtFI/s320/1111-Trees-at-Point-Vincent.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 201px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5599987129320355730" /></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</div><div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; ">http://brauker.com</div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2975036971985992108?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-69349161052446368672011-04-22T10:20:00.002-06:002011-04-22T10:24:17.134-06:00<span class="Apple-style-span"><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p7vqX3IsIfY/TbGq8hXZW1I/AAAAAAAABCk/NAYXkZkhE00/s1600/1110-Inseparable.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 312px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p7vqX3IsIfY/TbGq8hXZW1I/AAAAAAAABCk/NAYXkZkhE00/s320/1110-Inseparable.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598443768523610962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Inseparable<br />6 x 6 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<span></span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I just loved the way these two cherries made the perfect couple. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; "><div style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562" style="text-decoration: none; ">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</div><div style="text-align: left; ">http://brauker.com</div></span></div></div></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6934916105244636867?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-24523381921428764812011-04-21T12:45:00.002-06:002011-04-21T12:57:34.603-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1fx5UxBkbds/TbB82bmulUI/AAAAAAAABCc/riHbd8puEeA/s1600/1109-Lemon--Watermelon-Slic.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1fx5UxBkbds/TbB82bmulUI/AAAAAAAABCc/riHbd8puEeA/s320/1109-Lemon--Watermelon-Slic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598111611386500418" /></a><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;">Lemon and Watermelon Slices</div><div style="text-align: center;">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>I thought I would experiment some with a still life, since I haven't done many. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562">Click here</a> to go to eBay and bid on this or other paintings I have listed. </div><div><br /></div><div>http://braukerart.blogspot.com</div><div>http://brauker.com</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A closer look.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X5JCno9wcgc/TbB8sKw9ZkI/AAAAAAAABCU/tjlt7wvf3eI/s1600/1109-Lemon-and-Watermelon-S.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X5JCno9wcgc/TbB8sKw9ZkI/AAAAAAAABCU/tjlt7wvf3eI/s320/1109-Lemon-and-Watermelon-S.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598111435067319874" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2452338192142876481?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-50474548853475882662011-04-17T12:03:00.002-06:002011-04-17T12:29:07.306-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M3YPbPtILnQ/TasrnxYz9AI/AAAAAAAABCM/Bj5BbWy_EwE/s1600/IMG00114-20110416-1935.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M3YPbPtILnQ/TasrnxYz9AI/AAAAAAAABCM/Bj5BbWy_EwE/s320/IMG00114-20110416-1935.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596614924210271234" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Here I am last night at the Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa,California for the 6" Squared Show. There was a huge crowd, and the paintings were great. My painting, Taos Pueblo is the one on the top in the center.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5047454885347588266?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-13381330009147077012011-04-13T15:30:00.004-06:002011-04-13T15:48:32.617-06:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WM42Ug8mmJs/TaYW21GkAuI/AAAAAAAABCE/3wqIM8r_Efs/s1600/1108-Gettysburg-Morning.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WM42Ug8mmJs/TaYW21GkAuI/AAAAAAAABCE/3wqIM8r_Efs/s320/1108-Gettysburg-Morning.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595184718277772002" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Gettysburg Morning</div><div style="text-align: center;">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>Yesterday, April 12, was the 150th anniversary of the start of the most horrific conflict ever fought on American soil. Known as the Civil War, or the War Between the States, at the end of the four year war, 620,000 brave young men lay dead from combat and disease. I painted this yesterday as a reminder and tribute to the brave soldiers of both sides, Americans all. </div><div><br /></div><div>This is an early morning view of a battle cannon pointed out towards the mist shrouded fields of Gettysburg. The painting was inspired by a photograph by Jack Jay Jenkins, a wonderful photographer who chronicles Civil War Reenactments. You can see his photography <a href="http://thm-photos.smugmug.com/">here</a>. </div><div><br /></div></div><div>Contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $100 (free shipping). Credit cards welcomed.</div><div><br /></div><div>http://braukerart.blogspot.com</div><div>http://brauker.com</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1338133000914707701?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-82291673260462972572011-04-05T09:56:00.002-06:002011-04-05T09:59:00.399-06:00<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IfwWbEZEeYw/TZs6mV6jUCI/AAAAAAAABB8/PH5hAjtm5BE/s1600/1107-Country-Road.jpg" style="color: rgb(148, 15, 4); text-decoration: none; "><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IfwWbEZEeYw/TZs6mV6jUCI/AAAAAAAABB8/PH5hAjtm5BE/s320/1107-Country-Road.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592127792702771234" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 320px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; " ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Country Road</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">6 x 6 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Oil on wood panel.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">(c) Bill Brauker</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">Ah, a peaceful country road in the summer. Makes me want to go for a drive.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "><br /></span></div></span><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Contact me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $100 (free shipping). Credit cards welcomed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 13px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span">http://brauker.com</span></a></div></div></div></span></div></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8229167326046297257?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-77017998929820673442011-03-31T14:20:00.006-06:002011-03-31T14:45:23.574-06:00<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-McMxoLcMYjE/TZTnmB2LeMI/AAAAAAAABBk/0k7SkNEswfA/s1600/six-inch-square-announcemen.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-McMxoLcMYjE/TZTnmB2LeMI/AAAAAAAABBk/0k7SkNEswfA/s320/six-inch-square-announcemen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590347677990353090" /></a><div style="text-align: left;">I'm pleased to announce that my painting Taos Pueblo, was selected by the jury for the, 6" Squared exhibition and sale at the Randy Higbee Gallery in Costa Mesa, California.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wGWS8wJoyc8/TZTluuPGedI/AAAAAAAABBU/hIiEhrraNTo/s320/1103%2BTaos%2BPueblo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590345628321741266" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">Please contact the Randy Higbee Gallery for sales information.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EvsO7E7Y20o/TZTmp7T1mAI/AAAAAAAABBc/MQ0W90KPkmQ/s320/six-inch-square-invite.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590346645443549186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 320px; " /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://brauker.com/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://brauker.com</a></div></div></span></span></span></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J5j4RdHe3L8/TZTjJ9RXw4I/AAAAAAAABBE/DBkC1zx6fVM/s1600/six-inch-square-invite.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7701799892982067344?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-4266073831921537632011-03-23T15:45:00.007-06:002011-03-23T16:27:04.947-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vigYTyIe0GY/TYpqtwO7wsI/AAAAAAAABA0/Nbt3nafIQUo/s1600/1106-Clouds-over-the-front-.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vigYTyIe0GY/TYpqtwO7wsI/AAAAAAAABA0/Nbt3nafIQUo/s320/1106-Clouds-over-the-front-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587395621980717762" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; " ><div style="text-align: center; ">Clouds Over The Front Range</div><div style="text-align: center; ">5 x 7 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; ">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center; ">(c) Bill Brauker</div></span></div><div><br /></div><div>I went for a walk yesterday afternoon near my house in Westminster, CO and spotted these clouds over the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. It is one of my favorite views from the neighborhood.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is my entry in the <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Challenge/FC50B15D-5016-4E5E-87F2-87C3F79BA65B">Daily Paintworks challenge</a> to raise funds for the people of Japan. Artists from around the world are donating the proceeds from the sales of all the paintings on the challenge site. To help this important cause, go to <a href="http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Challenge/FC50B15D-5016-4E5E-87F2-87C3F79BA65B">http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Challenge/FC50B15D-5016-4E5E-87F2-87C3F79BA65B</a> to place a bid on my painting or on one of the hundreds of others available. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/">http://braukerart.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div><div style="color: rgb(25, 25, 25); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://brauker.com/">http://brauker.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><br /></u></span></div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-426607383192153763?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-59334335900231680372011-03-13T13:30:00.002-06:002011-03-13T13:33:42.158-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfTsaWAHl5o/TX0bfpGpAxI/AAAAAAAABAk/kSlsnEk_nVM/s1600/1105-Snow-Tipi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfTsaWAHl5o/TX0bfpGpAxI/AAAAAAAABAk/kSlsnEk_nVM/s320/1105-Snow-Tipi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583649343432885010" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Snow Tipi</span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">6 x 6 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Oil on wood panel.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">This was an experiment on my part. An imagined painting. I love mountains, especially with lots of snow. It is amazing the different colors that nature makes so I wanted to play with that. I also love tipis. They are an incredible invention, a portable home that you can take anywhere. They are a great geometric shape and represent a history that is long and fascinating. Finally, I have always loved the many haystacks in winter paintings of Claude Monet. In a way this is my homage to the great master.</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5933433590023168037?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-76342501359757467972011-03-10T16:47:00.003-07:002011-03-10T17:01:20.468-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MD-AtKkgcWw/TXljNA7dUiI/AAAAAAAABAc/6kpBDMrIlTc/s1600/1104-California-Sunset.jpg"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MD-AtKkgcWw/TXljNA7dUiI/AAAAAAAABAc/6kpBDMrIlTc/s320/1104-California-Sunset.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582602288341275170" /></a><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">California Sunset</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">6 x 6 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Oil on wood panel.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">There is not much that compares with the beauty of sun setting into the Pacific off the California Coastline.</span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7634250135975746797?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-4835938193366956612011-03-07T12:56:00.003-07:002011-03-07T13:23:14.970-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt-0qrQ14S0/TXU4jwa-XgI/AAAAAAAABAU/HNZ2NnEaA_k/s1600/1103-Taos-Pueblo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qt-0qrQ14S0/TXU4jwa-XgI/AAAAAAAABAU/HNZ2NnEaA_k/s320/1103-Taos-Pueblo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581429500140215810" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Taos Pueblo</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">6 x 6 inches</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Oil on wood panel.</div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Taos Pueblo is one of those places you visit, where you know you are seeing something special. It gives you a glimpse back into history.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">The Pueblo, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities, and is the largest surviving multistoried Pueblo structure in the United States. Built between 1000 and 1450 A.D. it appears today much like it would have been a millennium ago. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">In 1960, Taos Pueblo was designated a National Historic Landmark, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. In 1992, the Pueblo was named by the United Nations to the “World Heritage List,” due to its uniqueness and universal value to the heritage of all mankind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Approximately 150 people live within the Pueblo full time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">This was a joy to paint, I love the adobe buildings, the brilliant sunshine, and shadows, and oh, the blue of the sky and the mountains. </span></div><div style="text-align: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></div></div></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-483593819336695661?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-273357582701893322011-02-24T16:05:00.002-07:002011-02-24T16:11:10.839-07:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9-X6UlYB6QE/TWbkg482xwI/AAAAAAAABAE/i3zh2D4yWq0/s1600/1102-Waves-Huntington-Beach.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9-X6UlYB6QE/TWbkg482xwI/AAAAAAAABAE/i3zh2D4yWq0/s320/1102-Waves-Huntington-Beach.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5577396442239518466" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><div style="text-align: center;">Waves, Huntington Beach, Early Morn</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">6 x 6 inches </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">Oil on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; ">wood panel. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br />This is based on a photo I took shortly after sunrise at Huntington Beach in early December 2010. It was a magic time.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I currently have paintings for sale on eBay. You can find them</span><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbraukQQhtZ-1" style="color: rgb(153, 170, 221); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">here</a><span class="Apple-style-span" >.</span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-27335758270189332?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-5728604215430160172011-01-21T14:22:00.002-07:002011-01-21T14:26:53.970-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TTn5UDtV0sI/AAAAAAAAA_4/RZNsLgB_Bto/s1600/1101-The-Wait-350.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TTn5UDtV0sI/AAAAAAAAA_4/RZNsLgB_Bto/s320/1101-The-Wait-350.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564752937581138626" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The Wait</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on canvas.</div><div style="text-align: center;">11 x 14 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">This painting was inspired by a lovely photograph taken by Emilya Manole, a photographer from Romania who graciously allowed me to use it. To see more of her great photos, <a href="http://emilyamanole.deviantart.com/">click here.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-572860421543016017?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-27954719763648624132011-01-03T15:31:00.005-07:002011-01-03T16:04:37.949-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TSJOc4_2ZSI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/CaSsyCWp5JA/s1600/1019-Crazy-Horse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TSJOc4_2ZSI/AAAAAAAAA_Q/CaSsyCWp5JA/s320/1019-Crazy-Horse.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558091148372108578" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div style="text-align: center; "><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.21in; widows: 2; orphans: 2; font-size: 13px; "> <span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Crazy Horse<br />11 x 14 inches<br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Oil on canvas<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">(c) Bill Brauker</span></span></p><p align="CENTER" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; line-height: 0.21in; widows: 2; orphans: 2; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span><b>About the Painting:</b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Why does this painting not look much like an Indian? The answer is simple, because Crazy Horse did not look much like an Indian.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Crazy Horse was most often described as small and slender, 5'6 to 5'8" very light complected, with long, fine, light brown hair and hazel eyes. When he was a child he was known by two names, given to him by his mother, Curley and Light Hair, because of his unusual hair.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">In an interview at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, July 8, 1930, (Mrs. Annie Rowland, interpreter) Red Feather, Crazy Horse's brother in law said, "Crazy Horse was a nice-looking man, with brown, not black, hair, a sharp nose, and a narrow face. Nobody on the reservation nowadays looks like him. His nose was straight and thin. His hair was very long, straight, and fine in texture. "</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">In 1867, Crazy Horse was shot in the face with a small pistol wielded by a jealous husband. The bullet entered his face close to the left nostril and exited out his neck just under the back of his skull. The recovery was slow but complete, and a scar remained the rest of his life.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Short Bull, (aka Short Buffalo) a Sioux warrior who fought with Crazy Horse at the Little Bighorn, said, “Crazy Horse was a man not very tall and not very short, neither broad nor thin. His hair was very light about the color of yours. (The interviewer could be described as a medium blonde).</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">“<span>But Crazy Horse had a very light complexion, much lighter than the other Indians. He usually wore a Iroquois shell necklace; this was the only ornament he wore. His features were not like those of the rest of us. His face was not broad, and he had a sharp, high nose. He had black eyes that hardly ever looked straight at a man, but they didn't miss much that was going on, all the same. " (The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader edited by R. Eli Paul, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE 1998, p 202 - 208 )</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Frank Grouard was a scout and interpreter for the cavalry. In his younger years, he had lived in the camps of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse for seven to eight years. He said, "Crazy Horse had somewhat peculiar features. He had sandy hair and was of a very light complexion. He didn't have the high cheekbones that the Indians generally have and didn't talk much. He was a young looking Indian -- appeared much younger than his age. There were a few powder marks on one side of his face.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Little Killer, a long time friend of Crazy Horse, was interviewed by Eleanor Hinman on July 12, 1930. (Translated by Samuel Stands.) When asked to describe him, Little Killer said, "Crazy Horse was a short, little man. He did not have black hair; he had brown hair like a white man's and a long straight nose. His eyes were black like a Lakota's."</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun was born in 1857 to a fur trader and, a Brule Lakota woman. She lived at Fort Robinson where Crazy Horse surrendered to authorities in 1877. In later life, she described an encounter with him. "My husband, Chas. Tackett, was a scout, but when he was not on duty, he clerked in Jewett's store, and [he] had waited on Crazy Horse. My mother-in-law and I drove up to the store one day when Crazy Horse was there; she pointed him out to me. He was a very handsome young man of about thirty-six years or so. He was not so dark; he had hazel eyes, [and] nice, long light-brown hair.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">What did Crazy Horse really look like? We may never know. Although there are some photographs that have been touted as being the Sioux warrior, none have been authenticated.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><b>About Custer and Crazy Horse:</b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">I have had an interest in history all my life, and last fall, made a road trip up into Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota, visiting the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Deadwood, and Ft. Laramine. Since my return, I have been devouring books about the battle of the Little Bighorn, and all the fascinating characters who came together at that time. It was a true clash of cultures and I find myself understanding and sympathizing with both sides. These were men who were doing what they thought was right.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">The two main players, George Armstrong Custer and Crazy Horse have much in common They were almost the same age, they were courageous fighters, and both were charismatic leaders.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span>Custer was a true hero of the Civil War. He won a major battle at Gettysburg that turned the tide for the Union Army. He also played a major role at the end of the war when he led the troops that trapped Robert E. Lee at the Appomattox Court House. Lee met General Ulysses Grant at Appomattox and surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9. </span> </p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">General Phillip Sheridan was so impressed by Custer's service, that he bought the table on which Grant had written the terms of surrender. He presented the table to Custer's wife Libbie and wrote her that, "I respectfully present to you the small writing table on which the conditions for surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was written by Lt. General Grant — and permit me to say Madam, that there was scarcely an individual in our service who has contributed more to bring about this desirable result than your very gallant husband." (The table is now in the Smithsonian Institution.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Through the late 1850s and early 1860s, Crazy Horse's reputation as a warrior grew, He was at every major battle of the Plains wars, and was always a leader. He was a major force at the Battle of the Little Bighorn that destroyed Custer and his entire force. There was no other Sioux warrior as famous in battle as the quiet, slender, Crazy Horse, who led not through words, but by actions.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">After Crazy Horse turned himself in to authorities and vowed never to fight again, the attention paid to him by the Army caused friction with other chiefs. Soon rumors were spread that Crazy Horse was going to kill a general and go back on the war path. There was much trouble brewing. On September 5, 1877, he was led from his encampment to Fort Robinson, for what he thought was a meeting with army authorities. When he entered the fort, he was led toward a building by an army guard on one arm and by his life long friend, Little Big Man, holding his other arm. (Yes, there really was a Little Big Man. Unfortunately in the end, he betrayed his friend Crazy Horse.) As they neared it, Crazy Horse realized it was the guardhouse and that he was to be imprisoned. He began to struggle to break free and a guard stabbed him in the back with a bayonet.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">A few hours later, Crazy horse was dead, a little over a year after his greatest triumph at the battle of the Little Bighorn.</span></p><p></p></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2795471976364862413?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-85531068020804195332010-11-26T11:02:00.004-07:002010-11-26T11:17:02.067-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TO_2nMPLEEI/AAAAAAAAA_E/bKPuY8XR2kA/s1600/1018-Monument-Valley-450.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TO_2nMPLEEI/AAAAAAAAA_E/bKPuY8XR2kA/s320/1018-Monument-Valley-450.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543920819476566082" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Monument Valley</div><div style="text-align: center;">24 x 48 inches</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Monument Valley is a remarkable place. When you visit, it will stay with you forever. The vastness of it is incredible and that sky, well, it takes your breath away. One of the interesting things we noticed is that the white clouds had a red cast to them on the bottom, from the reflection from the ground. When I got home, I just couldn't get the vision of this place out of my mind. This was a joy to paint. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For a much larger view of the painting and sales information, go to, http://<a href="http://brauker.com/landscape12.htm">http://brauker.com/landscape12.htm</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For more information about </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8553106802080419533?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-16460894337795924392010-11-04T11:21:00.004-06:002010-11-04T11:31:22.354-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TNLrqcDhH4I/AAAAAAAAA-8/i0a-SA_Hcxk/s1600/1017-The-Veil.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TNLrqcDhH4I/AAAAAAAAA-8/i0a-SA_Hcxk/s320/1017-The-Veil.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5535746006309740418" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The Veil</div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have been fiddling away with three large paintings that are 99 percent finished, but I never seem to call it quits with them. So yesterday, I decided to paint something I could finish at one time. This painting is based on the photo of a lovely friend, who graciously allowed me to use her image as inspiration. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I currently have paintings for sale on eBay. You can find them <a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbraukQQhtZ-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">here</a>.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1646089433779592439?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-10160228584258232172010-10-28T12:39:00.002-06:002010-10-28T12:52:47.540-06:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TMnDt2VKtJI/AAAAAAAAA-0/yvVttM0YN0o/s1600/1016-The-Red-Room.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TMnDt2VKtJI/AAAAAAAAA-0/yvVttM0YN0o/s320/1016-The-Red-Room.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533168809647191186" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The Red Room</div><div style="text-align: center;">16 x 20 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>I have always loved Edgar Dega's works of lovely ladies in their boudoir, and thought I would do one of my own.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1016022858425823217?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-36936448664679927662010-10-20T10:41:00.003-06:002010-10-20T11:06:47.695-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TL8cG4TUR_I/AAAAAAAAA-s/J5zg-E5fZD4/s1600/1015-Reclining-Lady.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TL8cG4TUR_I/AAAAAAAAA-s/J5zg-E5fZD4/s320/1015-Reclining-Lady.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530169771952457714" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Reclining Lady</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">16 x 20 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>This painting was inspired by a great photo of the lovely model, <a href="http://www.modelmayhem.com/433140">Clayre McKinnen</a>, of Cambridge, England. The photo was taken by <a href="http://www.photoicon.com/club/kennethpegg/">Ken Pegg</a>, of Weymouth, England, who graciously allowed me to use it for my painting. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3693644866467992766?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-32363707554742602492010-09-24T15:03:00.002-06:002010-09-24T15:14:53.393-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TJ0SWJDez1I/AAAAAAAAA-k/HMa-W_xLojQ/s1600/1014-Sunflower.jpg"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TJ0SWJDez1I/AAAAAAAAA-k/HMa-W_xLojQ/s320/1014-Sunflower.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520588889823039314" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Sunflower</div><div style="text-align: center;">11 x 14 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>Anne and I had such fun on our road trip to WY, MT and SD, last week, that I decided I wanted to continue the fun when I got home. I have been working on three large paintings, one of Monument Valley, another of Notting Hill Station in London, and a nude. They are all about 95 percent done, but I wanted to do something that I could finish fast and would be fun to do. </div><div><br /></div><div>This spring, I planted some sunflowers in the back yard, and this guy grew to be eight feet tall. I captured him at the height of his beauty with the cobalt blue, Colorado sky behind. Was it fun?Oh yes, it was! </div><div><br /></div><div>Email me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $200.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3236370755474260249?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-38896139735251383712010-08-26T14:39:00.002-06:002010-08-26T14:56:44.120-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/THbU4Uqs5tI/AAAAAAAAA-U/GEdnrnSISfQ/s1600/1013-Shiprock-New-Mexico.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/THbU4Uqs5tI/AAAAAAAAA-U/GEdnrnSISfQ/s320/1013-Shiprock-New-Mexico.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509825258219955922" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Shiprock, New Mexico </div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>Another in a series of Western paintings. Shiprock, is a rock formation rising nearly 1,583 feet (482.5 m) above the high-desert plain on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico. It's 7,177 feet (2,187.5 m) above the sea level, in the Northwest corner of the state.</div><div>Shiprock is the remnant of the throat of a volcano. </div><div><br /></div><div>Shiprock is an amazing sight as it rises above the desert. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3889613973525138371?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-58280840333798492302010-08-19T14:50:00.010-06:002010-08-26T14:57:57.725-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TG2kPS74D4I/AAAAAAAAA-M/Sg_tzqN6oDE/s1600/1012-New-Mexico-Desert.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TG2kPS74D4I/AAAAAAAAA-M/Sg_tzqN6oDE/s320/1012-New-Mexico-Desert.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507238502031953794" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">New Mexico Desert</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 20px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#CCCCCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">5 x 7 inches</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Oil on wood panel </span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another in a series of Western paintings. This is a typical scene along the highway in</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> New Mexico.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TG2j_jQu_uI/AAAAAAAAA-E/o8Ve52sdWVo/s320/1012-New-Mexico-Desert-deta.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5507238231536500450" /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Detail of the painting.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To purchase this painting, go to my </span><a href="http://shop.ebay.com/billbrauk/m.html?_nkw=&amp;_armrs=1&amp;_from=&amp;_ipg="><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">eBay page</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to bid on it. Free shipping.</span></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></span></span></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5828084033379849230?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-21160410270658504322010-07-28T12:02:00.004-06:002010-07-28T12:26:53.182-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TFB1X_AOTXI/AAAAAAAAA9k/SyMfmYCRODA/s1600/1011-Art-Show-Shadows.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TFB1X_AOTXI/AAAAAAAAA9k/SyMfmYCRODA/s320/1011-Art-Show-Shadows.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499024199929187698" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Art Show Shadows</div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>This is my lovely wife, Anne, viewing some paintings at the Cheery Creek Arts Festival in Denver, in early July. The festival draws 350,000 visitors into the streets to see the art. This is the shadowy side of the booth housing the paintings of <a href="http://www.myartspace.com/PhyllisStapler/">Phyllis Stapler</a>, an artist who lives in the Four Corners area. Be sure to click on her name and take a look at some of her work.</div><div><br /></div><div>Email me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $400 (free shipping).</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2116041027065850432?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-78879356211662828262010-07-12T11:13:00.004-06:002010-07-12T11:24:48.547-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TDtPyozQZvI/AAAAAAAAA9c/xaqjsR0bIQA/s1600/1010-San-Jos%C3%A9-de-Gracia-Chu.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TDtPyozQZvI/AAAAAAAAA9c/xaqjsR0bIQA/s320/1010-San-Jos%C3%A9-de-Gracia-Chu.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493071901872908018" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">San José de Gracia Church, Las Trampas, NM</div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Las Trampas, a small town on the scenic High Road to Taos, is approximately halfway between Santa Fe and Taos. The town was founded in 1751 and is known for the lovely San José de Gracia Church, built between 1760 and 1776. The church is a great example of adobe architecture. We stopped in mid afternoon in intense sunshine. The clear cobalt blue sky was amazing.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Email me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $300 (free shipping).</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7887935621166282826?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-66088298030640135882010-07-09T14:51:00.003-06:002010-07-09T15:16:21.532-06:00<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TDePcth3z7I/AAAAAAAAA9U/BLX90X4K5rs/s1600/1009-Mountain-View.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/TDePcth3z7I/AAAAAAAAA9U/BLX90X4K5rs/s320/1009-Mountain-View.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492015994022383538" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Mountain View</div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a view from our favorite mountain to climb, Chief Mountain, 11,709 feet. The painting was based on a photo I took, just as we broke above the tree line on the way to the top. There are a number of spectacular views in Colorado, and the view from Chief Mountain ranks near the top for me.</div><div><br /></div><div>Email me if you are interested in purchasing this painting for $300 (free shipping).</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6608829803064013588?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-73318777124264625922010-07-06T15:46:00.002-06:002010-07-06T15:50:16.823-06:00Just an update to let you know that I haven't quit painting, or fallen off the earth. I have been working on several larger pieces that have not hit the finished stage yet, but should soon. Also I had a road trip to Utah and New Mexico and my sister came to visit, so have been quite busy. Hope to post some new work in a few days.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7331877712426462592?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-29933484401607803652010-05-17T12:47:00.002-06:002010-05-17T12:51:37.708-06:00<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S_GPhHw9EBI/AAAAAAAAA9M/TvigL8cb-lQ/s1600/1008-Blue-Doors,-Taos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S_GPhHw9EBI/AAAAAAAAA9M/TvigL8cb-lQ/s320/1008-Blue-Doors,-Taos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472312821414694930" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The Blue Doors, Taos</div><div style="text-align: center;">5 x 7 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on canvas panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another in a series of Taos paintings. I loved the blue doors and the adobe. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Price: $100. Free shipping. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2993348440160780365?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-50391006704220452902010-04-26T16:10:00.002-06:002010-04-26T16:18:50.210-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S9YPucLf3zI/AAAAAAAAA9E/MIgG9Dlin7E/s1600/1007-San-Francisco-de-Asis-.jpg"><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S9YPucLf3zI/AAAAAAAAA9E/MIgG9Dlin7E/s320/1007-San-Francisco-de-Asis-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464572488373493554" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">San Francisco de Asis Church, Taos</div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;">(c) Bill Brauker</div><div><br /></div><div>Construction began on this beautiful church in 1772. It is a Taos landmark, and has been photographed and painted thousands of times. This is my contribution. This view is the rear of the church on a cold evening at sunset, February 2010. </div><div><br /></div><div>Email me if you are interested in purchasing it.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5039100670422045290?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-3742524822860061992010-04-21T13:57:00.002-06:002010-04-21T14:07:20.418-06:00<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S89Y7tVT9hI/AAAAAAAAA88/rf4xWKSZNdM/s1600/1006-Painted-Desert-Trees,-.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S89Y7tVT9hI/AAAAAAAAA88/rf4xWKSZNdM/s320/1006-Painted-Desert-Trees,-.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462682655828211218" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Painted Desert Trees, Arizona</div><div style="text-align: center;">11 x 14 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>These were some trees I spotted near the Petrified Forest National Park, Visitor Center. It was early afternoon, and the sun was beating down on the desert. If you are ever in the area, be sure to stop. The petrified wood is interesting to see, but what makes a stop here special, are the amazing views of the Painted Desert. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-374252482286006199?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-48990597519324487402010-04-20T16:08:00.003-06:002010-04-20T16:18:31.782-06:00<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S84meHWPNSI/AAAAAAAAA80/xiwo_QsYjbs/s1600/1003-The-Back-Gate-Taos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S84meHWPNSI/AAAAAAAAA80/xiwo_QsYjbs/s320/1003-The-Back-Gate-Taos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462345696857240866" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">The Back Gate, Taos</div><div style="text-align: center;">8 x 10 inches</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on wood panel</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div><div><br /></div><div>This was actually painted back in February, as a gift for our friends, Julie and Fred Felix, who graciously allowed us to spend a couple of nights with them in their lovely house in Taos, New Mexico. In the excitement over our trip, I had forgotten to take a photo of the finished painting, so Julie took a photo for me. This is the back gate to their house. I used a photo that Julie had posted on her Facebook page as the reference for the painting.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4899059751932448740?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-68349653849036234542010-03-17T16:26:00.002-06:002010-03-17T16:49:10.801-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S6FcC7KoxZI/AAAAAAAAA8k/Dfxi-A-qVfM/s1600-h/1005-Last-Light.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S6FcC7KoxZI/AAAAAAAAA8k/Dfxi-A-qVfM/s320/1005-Last-Light.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449738229406811538" border="0" /></a>Last Light<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">20 x 24 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>This is based on a photo I took near Church Rock, New Mexico. It was just before sunset and I love the way the shaft of light hit the red rock cliff.<br /><br />Email me if you are interested in purchasing it.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6834965384903623454?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-67767545363402694352010-02-28T15:58:00.007-07:002010-02-28T16:31:01.411-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S4r1USu0VrI/AAAAAAAAA8U/W6zy0HInzbU/s1600-h/1004-Adobe-House.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S4r1USu0VrI/AAAAAAAAA8U/W6zy0HInzbU/s320/1004-Adobe-House.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443432828605060786" border="0" /></a>Adobe House<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span>This is my first painting based on photos I took recently on an 8 day road trip with Anne and my sister Robin from Michigan. We went down to NM, then over to AZ where we got together with relatives. On the way back we spent two days in Taos with friends. We had great fun, and I have many, many photos of great landscapes. So check back as I continue to work on more.<br /><br />This house was across the street from the Painted Desert Inn, in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. I loved how the late afternoon sunlight played on the adobe.<br /><br />If you would like to purchase the painting for $125, (free shipping) email me.<span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6776754536340269435?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-73376804008976747362010-02-20T11:43:00.006-07:002010-02-20T12:07:42.925-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S4Ay8qVEJkI/AAAAAAAAA8M/Kk1BRStA9Vk/s1600-h/1001-karin-Jurick.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S4Ay8qVEJkI/AAAAAAAAA8M/Kk1BRStA9Vk/s320/1001-karin-Jurick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440404367599740482" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This portrait of Karin Jurick was part of a project created by <a href="http://jillpolsby.blogspot.com/">Jill Polsby</a>. Karin operates a great site, <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes from Different Folks,</a> where she chooses a photo and many artists paint it. In December, she has artists send a photo of themselves and the photos are exchanged and everyone does a portrait of someone else. To thank her for her work on the project, Jill thought it would be nice if artists who have participated in the past do a portrait of Karin.<br /><br />There was a great response. To see the 118 portraits, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/polsby/The118FacesOfKarinJurickJanuary2010?authkey=Gv1sRgCLCMzN6K7LOCGg#">click here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7337680400897674736?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-89957692641791014222010-01-18T16:19:00.006-07:002010-01-18T16:49:41.101-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S1Ts-VEGp6I/AAAAAAAAA7U/qKIeD9PZ3A8/s1600-h/1002-Front-Range-Sunset-500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S1Ts-VEGp6I/AAAAAAAAA7U/qKIeD9PZ3A8/s320/1002-Front-Range-Sunset-500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428224006438692770" border="0" /></a>Front Range Sunset<br />11 x 14 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This is one of my favorite views. I have based the painting on a photo I took from the east end of Standley Lake, (about 1/4 mile from my house) looking towards the front range of the Rocky Mountains. We have spectacular sunsets almost every night, and every one is different. It is wonderful to look out and see the mountains, as they range through different shades of blue as the sun dips behind them.<br /></div></div><br />I haven't posted much work on here lately, but I have been busily painting. I completed a small portrait of a friend over the weekend. (I won't be able to post it for several weeks, as it is a surprise.) I'm also working on a 30 x 40 inch painting of a train pulling into Notting Hill Gate Station in London. It is based on this photo I took a couple of years ago.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S1Tx8RlAmfI/AAAAAAAAA7k/hsKbUB6q6i4/s1600-h/blog-photo-notting-hill.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/S1Tx8RlAmfI/AAAAAAAAA7k/hsKbUB6q6i4/s200/blog-photo-notting-hill.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428229468701366770" border="0" /></a>I also have two others in progress, an 8 X 10 inch still life of a vase of sunflowers, and a 16 x 20 inch of a lovely nude woman from the back on a green couch in a dark green room.<br /><br />So keep checking in, I should have one or more of these to post soon.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">_____<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I may currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8995769264179101422?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-91384793872188023642009-12-21T09:51:00.006-07:002009-12-21T10:10:14.567-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sy-oJUa04DI/AAAAAAAAA60/JWXxzOl9kfE/s1600-h/0951-Kristen-Reitz-Green.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sy-oJUa04DI/AAAAAAAAA60/JWXxzOl9kfE/s320/0951-Kristen-Reitz-Green.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417733754803511346" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Kristen Reitz-Green<br />9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This is my entry into the portrait exchange at <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes From Different Folks</a>, a wonderful site created by Karin Jurick. This is the second year that artists have sent in photos of themselves, and Karin matches the artists up and they paint each other. It is fun way to end the year.<br /><br />This is the photo I received.<br /><br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sy-qrda9qCI/AAAAAAAAA7E/O-E9qr4nUZ8/s1600-h/different+strokes+2009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sy-qrda9qCI/AAAAAAAAA7E/O-E9qr4nUZ8/s200/different+strokes+2009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417736540358813730" border="0" /></a>When I received it, I did not know who she was, but since she paints faster than I, the portrait she did has already been posted, and I now know that the lovely lady is, <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="http://reitzgreen.blogspot.com/">Kristen Reitz-Green</a>. Check out her blog to see the great portrait she did.<br /><div style="text-align: center;">_____<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-9138479387218802364?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-40310644162384123922009-12-18T15:34:00.004-07:002009-12-18T15:48:43.773-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SywEBj5gJPI/AAAAAAAAA6s/w4avDxTeKRw/s1600-h/0950-frames.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SywEBj5gJPI/AAAAAAAAA6s/w4avDxTeKRw/s320/0950-frames.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416708876682667250" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Frames<br />11 x 14 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I love museums. There is something special about the large spaces, the quiet, the frames and most of all, the art, in all shapes, sizes and styles. To me, the paintings send out a vibration from the painter across the years, that is still alive in the image. It is something you can actually feel and witness as others are enveloped by the energy. A solitary figure in a large room such as this, is not really alone, for the artist is there also.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $500 (free shipping).<br /></div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SywDs9BwYyI/AAAAAAAAA6k/l0cg3Pnct0k/s1600-h/0950-frames-detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SywDs9BwYyI/AAAAAAAAA6k/l0cg3Pnct0k/s320/0950-frames-detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416708522650919714" border="0" /></a><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4031064416238412392?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-74799794411200441042009-11-18T15:19:00.005-07:002009-11-18T16:09:38.103-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwR9phTI7aI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Lw9HHm0T4Ng/s1600/0949-Sunflowers.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwR9phTI7aI/AAAAAAAAA4A/Lw9HHm0T4Ng/s320/0949-Sunflowers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405583605018193314" border="0" /></a>Sunflowers - Homage to Vincent<br />24 x 30 inches<br />Oil on canvas<br /><span style="font-size: 78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span><br /></div><br />A few days ago, I happened on a blog called, <span style="font-style: italic;">Follow the Masters</span>. http://followingthemasters.blogspot.com/ The most recent challenge was to paint like Vincent Van <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Gogh</span>. Well, Vincent is my favorite. I have visited the Van <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Gogh</span> Museum in Amsterdam twice! So this challenge really excited me. It also sent me out to the garage. Why the garage you ask?<br /><br />In 1979, I bought a 24 x 30 inch canvas and decided, as an exercise, to paint Vincent's, <span style="font-style: italic;">Still Life: Vase With 14 Sunflowers</span>. (The original painting hangs in the National Gallery in London, where I have <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">visited</span> it several times.) I finished the drawing, and had put in some of the background color, when for some reason, (I can't remember why) I stopped. All this time, the unfinished canvas has been with me. I took it from Michigan, to Hawaii for six years, then here to Colorado, where it has lived high up on a shelf in the garage for the past 12 years. Finally its time had come.<br /><br />Several days ago, I brought it in, set it on the easel, squeezed out large <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">dollops</span> of yellow and orange on my palette and went to work.<br /><br />What a joy this was to do. It gave me real insight into how great Vincent was. He was doing something, in a way that no one had done before. I have read the books of his letters to his brother, Theo, and know what a struggle he had each month to get enough money to buy paint and canvas, yet when you do a painting such as this, you realize the amazing amount of paint he used. He didn't conserve, he had to do it his way and if it meant using lots of paint he would, because it was what had to be done.<br /><br />I have always been rather miserly with my paint, putting too little on the palette, because I didn't want to waste it. Not any more. From now on, I will treat the paint as what it is, a medium to the message, and I will not have any fear.<br /><br />So, after 30 years, the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">painting</span> I started so long ago, is done. Thank you, Vincent, for your inspiration.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwR9WrQDVuI/AAAAAAAAA34/6jOTzWoY_Jk/s1600/0949-Sunflowers-detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 281px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwR9WrQDVuI/AAAAAAAAA34/6jOTzWoY_Jk/s320/0949-Sunflowers-detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405583281272084194" border="0" /></a><br />If you have an interest in Vincent's life, you can do no better than to find the books of his letters. In addition to being a great painter, he was an incredible intellect and writer.<br /><br />It is sad to think that he only did his art work for 10 years, from the age of 27 to 37, when he shot himself. Imagine the paintings there would be had he lived many years.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7479979441120044104?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-79156330717081310082009-11-17T09:21:00.006-07:002009-11-18T16:13:53.602-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwLOWwVk1JI/AAAAAAAAA3g/NQc1PJSCkg0/s1600/0948-Louise-Brooks.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwLOWwVk1JI/AAAAAAAAA3g/NQc1PJSCkg0/s320/0948-Louise-Brooks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405109393125856402" border="0" /></a><br />Louise Brooks<br />24 x 30 inches<br />Oil on canvas<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker</span></div><br />A wonderful collector in Pennsylvania commissioned me to paint Louise Brooks and a smaller painting, The Smoking Man.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwLOhxF1Z2I/AAAAAAAAA3o/HJMy8OAUmts/s1600/0948-Smoking-Man.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SwLOhxF1Z2I/AAAAAAAAA3o/HJMy8OAUmts/s320/0948-Smoking-Man.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405109582306830178" border="0" /></a><br />The Smoking Man<br />9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on canvas<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">If you want to commission a painting, please email me.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7915633071708131008?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-87756976902772193642009-10-30T14:40:00.004-06:002009-10-30T14:50:10.965-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SutPl2oO-pI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/DJmolmQCIeM/s1600-h/0946-Golden-Trail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 255px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SutPl2oO-pI/AAAAAAAAA3Y/DJmolmQCIeM/s320/0946-Golden-Trail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398496090071693970" border="0" /></a>Golden Trail<br />16 x 20 inches<br />Oil on canvas panel<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(c) Bill Brauker<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This painting is based on a photo I took a couple of weeks ago. It is about two miles from my house, on the western end of Standley Lake. I loved all the golden colors as they flowed across the fields.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $300.<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8775697690277219364?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-48935614634835246452009-10-19T12:39:00.007-06:002009-10-19T13:46:22.181-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sty2zgsHI9I/AAAAAAAAA3I/6_toMrlEh_g/s1600-h/0945-The-Bath-600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sty2zgsHI9I/AAAAAAAAA3I/6_toMrlEh_g/s320/0945-The-Bath-600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394387449747547090" border="0" /></a>The Bath<br />11 x 15 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><br /></div>I have been working on two commissioned paintings, so have not been doing much other work, but did manage to finish this one over the weekend. I have always loved the series of works by Edgar Degas featuring the bath. I thought I would try something somewhat similar. (Although, no one can approach the master.) Still, it was fun and I love the light and the warmth of this scene.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sty2RbfvklI/AAAAAAAAA3A/TEct3MfzZuo/s1600-h/0945+The+Bath+detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sty2RbfvklI/AAAAAAAAA3A/TEct3MfzZuo/s320/0945+The+Bath+detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394386864237941330" border="0" /></a><br />The panel was sized to fit this lovely wood frame that I bought at an antique shop.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/StzAoQTa5FI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/7kdmfXqXAX0/s1600-h/0945-The-Bath-frame.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 244px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/StzAoQTa5FI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/7kdmfXqXAX0/s320/0945-The-Bath-frame.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394398251486733394" border="0" /></a><br />Please contact me to purchase this painting and the frame for $1000, or regarding the availability and prices of any of my paintings.<br /><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4893561463483524645?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-71335666010410588722009-09-29T15:52:00.001-06:002009-09-29T15:58:20.810-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SsKCX-Mhp3I/AAAAAAAAA24/pUgqnJmyAEs/s1600-h/0944+Lifeguard+Tower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SsKCX-Mhp3I/AAAAAAAAA24/pUgqnJmyAEs/s320/0944+Lifeguard+Tower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387011452632672114" border="0" /></a>Lifeguard Tower<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I love the beach, and the serenity of the approaching evening. <br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $100.<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7133566601041058872?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-39380186175458959102009-09-23T13:31:00.003-06:002009-09-23T13:41:57.513-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Srp30kcUe8I/AAAAAAAAA2w/2fUMJ5bBFmw/s1600-h/0943-Mountain-Trail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Srp30kcUe8I/AAAAAAAAA2w/2fUMJ5bBFmw/s320/0943-Mountain-Trail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384748049494211522" border="0" /></a>Mountain Trail<br />9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This is one of my favorite places. It is about two miles from my house, on the western end of Standley Lake. Many times I have seen great horned owls in the trees to the left. The reason for the owls is that the field in the background, is filled with prairie dogs! And then finally, of course, the wonderful front range of the Rocky Mountains to view in the morning light.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $200.<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3938018617545895910?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-57435431327125777732009-09-09T13:44:00.005-06:002009-09-09T14:01:38.641-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SqgHjGq7beI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Oy0fqD1XDzM/s1600-h/0942-Twilight.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SqgHjGq7beI/AAAAAAAAA2k/Oy0fqD1XDzM/s320/0942-Twilight.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379558054561541602" border="0" /></a>Twilight<br />9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on canvas panel<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Twilight, the magic moment in summer when the last light glows so beautifully.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $179.<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5743543132712577773?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-44999021554494673202009-09-01T11:07:00.003-06:002009-09-01T11:11:46.711-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sp1U8ySoWUI/AAAAAAAAA2c/TbCXTmOMGwc/s1600-h/0941-Barnyard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sp1U8ySoWUI/AAAAAAAAA2c/TbCXTmOMGwc/s320/0941-Barnyard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376546933419039042" border="0" /></a>Barnyard<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on canvas panel<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Summertime on the farm. I can almost hear the crickets.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $79.<br /></div><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4499902155449467320?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-56558605643302813552009-08-31T11:50:00.002-06:002009-08-31T12:02:04.837-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SpwO5YRBIOI/AAAAAAAAA2U/Rm5oa0CaFWE/s1600-h/0940-House-in-Provence-500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SpwO5YRBIOI/AAAAAAAAA2U/Rm5oa0CaFWE/s320/0940-House-in-Provence-500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376188434102690018" border="0" /></a><br />House in Provence<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Spring time in Provence. It doesn't get much better than that.<br /><br />Contact me to purchase this painting for $150.<br /></div><br /></div>Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SpwOzlIP4rI/AAAAAAAAA2M/kbulWT1zTIw/s1600-h/0940+House+in+Provence+detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SpwOzlIP4rI/AAAAAAAAA2M/kbulWT1zTIw/s320/0940+House+in+Provence+detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376188334476354226" border="0" /></a>House in Provence, detail<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5655860564330281355?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-63454177598665604692009-08-10T17:12:00.000-06:002009-08-10T17:13:19.100-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SoCl0yGvNLI/AAAAAAAAA2E/UUJOJHO1-Dw/s1600-h/0939-The-Sleeping-Beauty-70.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SoCl0yGvNLI/AAAAAAAAA2E/UUJOJHO1-Dw/s320/0939-The-Sleeping-Beauty-70.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368473082047444146" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Sleeping Beauty<br />5x7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span><br /></div><br />It was a lot of fun to paint this beauty with only torrit grey and white. (Ok, there also were a couple of dabs of black.)<br /><br />I am going to enter this in the <a href="http://www.gamblincolors.com/torrit.grey/index.html" target="_blank">Torrit Grey Painting Competition</a>. Torrit grey tubes were given out free to artists in some art stores earlier this year. By hosting the competition, Robert Gamblin invites painters to experiment with how light &amp; dark values can have as much impact as color.<br /><br />Please contact me regarding availability and prices of any of my paintings. I will occasionally put some paintings on eBay, but find that the cost of doing business with eBay and the lack of support for sellers has turned me off from using it much.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6345417759866560469?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-6020866744221807722009-07-25T16:20:00.007-06:002009-07-25T17:05:07.424-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmuFY3KxOeI/AAAAAAAAA10/kNtH7csbYU8/s1600-h/0938-Charlecote-Park,-Engla.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmuFY3KxOeI/AAAAAAAAA10/kNtH7csbYU8/s320/0938-Charlecote-Park,-Engla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362526443487181282" border="0" /></a><br />Charlecote Park, England<br />11 x 14 inches<br />Oil on canvas.<br /><div style="text-align: left;">Several years ago, the family and I spent a wonderful few hours at Charlecote Park, a lovely 16th century country house on the banks of the River Avon, a short distance from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Local legend has it that a young William Shakespeare poached deer on the property.<br /><br />This is a view of a garden walkway near the house, on a cloudy day.<br /><br />What do you think? Did young Billy Shakespeare stalk a deer down this path? Probably not, but fun to think about anyway.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmuOiXGzHSI/AAAAAAAAA18/_kseDwBlq4s/s1600-h/xwsChelsea_and_Margaux_Charlecote.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmuOiXGzHSI/AAAAAAAAA18/_kseDwBlq4s/s320/xwsChelsea_and_Margaux_Charlecote.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362536502283935010" border="0" /></a><br />These are my daughters, Chelsea (L) and Margaux (R) walking down the long path to the Charlecote gatehouse. The garden path I painted is to the right of the house which you can see in the background beyond the gate.<br /><br />Contact me for sales information.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-602086674422180772?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-84808330209545958282009-07-23T17:03:00.004-06:002009-07-29T17:26:11.601-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmjtqHoLJmI/AAAAAAAAA1s/SoTtDc9W5_A/s1600-h/0937-Monet-Moment-500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SmjtqHoLJmI/AAAAAAAAA1s/SoTtDc9W5_A/s320/0937-Monet-Moment-500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361796664242415202" border="0" /></a><br />Monet Moment<br />10 X 13 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sold</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />This is based on a photograph I took of a young lady looking at Claude Monet's painting, <span style="font-style: italic;">Houses of Parliament, Sunset</span>, in the National Gallery, Washington, DC.<br /><br />Contact me for sales information.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8480833020954595828?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-61918628529501141282009-07-08T15:40:00.002-06:002009-07-08T15:59:51.832-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SlUSj7ULy2I/AAAAAAAAA1k/0RHaCnGfcYk/s1600-h/0936-LincolnMemorial.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SlUSj7ULy2I/AAAAAAAAA1k/0RHaCnGfcYk/s320/0936-LincolnMemorial.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356207740254145378" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Lincoln Memorial<br />8x10 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span><br /></div><br />I wanted this to be finished so I could post it for Independence Day, but didn't quite get it finished in time. Although Abraham Lincoln is not one of the founding fathers, he did save the nation, so I thought him appropriate for that day when we concentrate on our republic. <br /><br />My son, Bob, is an attorney, and I painted this for use on his web site. It will be included with this quote from Mr. Lincoln's second inaugural address. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."<br /><br />I used a photo I took of the Lincoln Memorial in 2006 as the inspiration for this painting. This was painted using only Torrit grey and white on a black surface.<br /><br />I am going to enter this in the <a href="http://www.gamblincolors.com/torrit.grey/index.html" target="_blank">Torrit Grey Painting Competition</a>. Torrit grey tubes were given out free to artists in some art stores earlier this year. By hosting the competition, Robert Gamblin invites painters to experiment with the first dimension of Gamblin Color Space: VALUE. See how light &amp; dark values can have as much impact as color. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6191862852950114128?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-41124685054795871182009-07-01T16:01:00.005-06:002009-07-01T16:18:30.112-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SkvgopL44NI/AAAAAAAAA1c/grQVozuQ9xI/s1600-h/0934-Lady-of-the-Lake-blog.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 257px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SkvgopL44NI/AAAAAAAAA1c/grQVozuQ9xI/s320/0934-Lady-of-the-Lake-blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353619570915074258" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Lady of the Lake<br />16 X 20 inches<br />Oil on canvas. </div><br />This is the latest in my series of paintings called, Ladies of Legend and Literature.<br /><br />I finished this a couple of weeks ago, and was not sure how I felt about it. I hung it on the wall and have lived with it for awhile, and now like it quite a bit. You know how it is, many of us are never completely satisfied with our work.<br /><br />The Lady of the Lake is the name of several related characters who play parts in the Arthurian legend. These characters' roles include giving King Arthur his sword Excalibur, enchanting Merlin, and raising Lancelot after the death of his father. Different writers and copyists give her name variously as Nimue, Viviane, Elaine, Niniane, Nivian, Nyneve, Nimueh and other variations. (Wikipedia)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4112468505479587118?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-84249810523140459762009-06-29T11:45:00.003-06:002009-06-29T11:53:09.101-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Skj_BDGEXUI/AAAAAAAAA1M/HJoxG8tFXBc/s1600-h/The-Rower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Skj_BDGEXUI/AAAAAAAAA1M/HJoxG8tFXBc/s320/The-Rower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352808550605544770" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">The Rower<br />8x10 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span><br /></div><br />This is my painting for the current <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes</a> project, which was started by Karin Jurick, a great artist, who graciously gives of her time and advice to bring people together in the creation of art. She posted a photo of a woman rowing on Lake Michigan. As a former long-time resident of Michigan, I have been to the great lake many times. It was wonderful trying to recreate the blues and greens of a hazy summer day. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8424981052314045976?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-2779526321648178462009-06-22T15:42:00.003-06:002009-06-22T15:53:18.500-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sj_7fLPL2vI/AAAAAAAAA1E/vCqedxPN1nc/s1600-h/0933-Lake-Granby,-Colorado.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sj_7fLPL2vI/AAAAAAAAA1E/vCqedxPN1nc/s320/0933-Lake-Granby,-Colorado.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350271395350436594" border="0" /></a>Lake Granby, Colorado<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span></div>The painting is the result of a beautiful day spent in Grand County, Colorado. There is so much beauty here, that sometimes it is almost too much, to try and capture it, using only a brush, paint and a wood panel. But I try. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-277952632164817846?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-78281438797614759132009-06-16T11:40:00.002-06:002009-06-16T13:07:05.840-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SjfqEJ9OIyI/AAAAAAAAA08/lzi-f0D_Pp0/s1600-h/0932-Water-Nymph.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SjfqEJ9OIyI/AAAAAAAAA08/lzi-f0D_Pp0/s320/0932-Water-Nymph.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348000439638827810" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Water Nymph<br />9 x 12 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span></div>The painting was inspired by a photo by Dave Levingston, a great photographer from Dayton, Ohio, who has graciously allowed me to use some of his work for my paintings. You can see his photos, many of which consist of tasteful artistic nudes, <a href="http://www.art2view.com/DaveLevingston/">here</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7828143879761475913?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-16561345487133798332009-06-03T13:22:00.005-06:002009-06-03T14:09:44.293-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SibN1cCpC6I/AAAAAAAAA0s/FV0De_QHL04/s1600-h/0931-Barn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SibN1cCpC6I/AAAAAAAAA0s/FV0De_QHL04/s320/0931-Barn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343184325865704354" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Barn<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<br /></div><br />Another farm painting. I love this time of the year out in the country. When I was a boy, every summer, my brother Jim and I (and in later years, my brother Jack and sister Robin) would go out to the farm and stay with my Grandma Brauker and Uncle Chuck. They are both long gone now, and the house was eventually sold and torn down, but the old barn still stands and whenever I get back to Coldwater, Michigan, I drive by to make sure she's still standing. (Click the link below to see photos of my Grandmother, the barn and a painting I did of the barn last year.)<br /><br />It was a magical time for us, riding the tractor, (see photo below) feeding the chickens, and the fun of gathering up their eggs, watching Uncle Chuck milk the cows, playing in the hayloft and so much more. There was no running water in the house, just a pump outside and a large pipe that went into the kitchen. Still Grandma whipped up incredible meals on the ancient large cast iron wood stove that sat like a tank on one end of the kitchen. There was no bathroom, so we got familiar with the two holer in the outhouse, which was located a discreet distance from the back door. At night we had a chamber pot under the bed. And speaking of night, oh how dark it was. At home we had a street light in front of our house, but when Grandma tucked us in, gave us a kiss and said good night, the light went off, and total darkness enveloped us. The only thing we could see was a small florescent cross that hung on the wall across the room. We were comforted by that as it slowly faded and we drifted off to sleep.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SibO6WLSEsI/AAAAAAAAA00/pr1ijNhwQxw/s1600-h/Bill+Jim+tractor.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SibO6WLSEsI/AAAAAAAAA00/pr1ijNhwQxw/s320/Bill+Jim+tractor.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343185509702308546" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Riding with Uncle Chuck on his wonderful old Ford tractor.<br />I am on the left, my brother, Jim on the right.<br />My guess is that this is the summer of 1954. That is<br />the chicken coop in the background.<br /><br /><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/2008/01/barn.html">Click here to see more photos.</a><br /><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1656134548713379833?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-11474960453653504822009-05-25T16:38:00.003-06:002009-05-25T16:53:34.338-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Shsf2hCmBAI/AAAAAAAAA0k/37w8C8Bo02Y/s1600-h/0930-Farmland.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Shsf2hCmBAI/AAAAAAAAA0k/37w8C8Bo02Y/s320/0930-Farmland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339896804620502018" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Farmland<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span><br /></div><br />This is my painting for the current <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes</a> project, which was started by Karin Jurick, a great artist, who graciously gives of her time and advice to bring people together in the creation of art. She posted a black and white shot of a farm she photographed in Pennsylvania, and it was up to us to interpret the colors. It was a fun project and I thank her for always challenging us.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1147496045365350482?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-81217353362522155882009-05-22T15:56:00.002-06:002009-05-22T15:58:29.416-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShcfiZYpyBI/AAAAAAAAA0c/nr5aGifD3bg/s1600-h/0928-Red-Barn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShcfiZYpyBI/AAAAAAAAA0c/nr5aGifD3bg/s320/0928-Red-Barn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338770559061313554" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Red Barn<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span><br /></div><br />I grew up in southern Michigan and fondly remember the barns on a midsummer's day<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8121735336252215588?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-16019714147723244072009-05-21T16:14:00.002-06:002009-05-21T16:23:59.156-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShXSx8hfECI/AAAAAAAAA0U/957JlMbsnbI/s1600-h/0927-The-Back-Porch-500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShXSx8hfECI/AAAAAAAAA0U/957JlMbsnbI/s320/0927-The-Back-Porch-500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338404688819589154" border="0" /></a>The Back Porch<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /></div><br />This is a view of the back porch at my sister's house in Coldwater, Michigan. It is a lovely place to sit in the summertime and watch the grass grow in the back yard.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1601971414772324407?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-55168459225457063352009-05-18T15:09:00.004-06:002009-05-18T15:29:56.639-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShHOro6_PFI/AAAAAAAAA0M/jPzAbYW9tq8/s1600-h/0926Marion.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/ShHOro6_PFI/AAAAAAAAA0M/jPzAbYW9tq8/s320/0926Marion.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337274282525277266" border="0" /></a>Marion<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The latest painting in my, Ladies of Legend and Literature series, is Marion. <span style="font-style: italic;">The Music Man</span>, has always been one of my favorites, and Marion the librarian is an icon of woman for men the world over. A prim and proper lady, but blessed with an aura of sensuality. What more can you ask for.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5516845922545706335?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-12333991393969320882009-05-12T16:55:00.006-06:002009-05-18T15:29:07.763-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sgn_dPZyP8I/AAAAAAAAA0E/xGOW_2XvDrk/s1600-h/0925-Morgause550.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sgn_dPZyP8I/AAAAAAAAA0E/xGOW_2XvDrk/s320/0925-Morgause550.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335076111413034946" border="0" /></a> <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;">Morgause <br />9 X 12 inches <br />Oil on Masonite panel. <br /> <br /><div style="text-align: left;">I have decided to do a series of paintings called, Ladies of Legend and Literature. <br /> <br />I have always been a fan of Arthurian literature, and have read many of the books. I have decided to do my first painting on the women of Camelot. The first is Morgause. Arthurian books describe her as the half-sister of Arthur. The two had not previously met and were ignorant of their relationship. They share a night of passion, and she had their son, Mordred, who many years later slayed Arthur in battle. The taboo of this incestuous act has led some modern authors to merge Morgause with her 'evil' sister Morgan Le Fay in this respect. Sometimes portrayed as evil and others as an innocent beauty, she is a temptress, nonetheless. <br /> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sgn_ODmiDSI/AAAAAAAAAz8/HlzyFTiPOAk/s1600-h/0925-Morgauseclsp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sgn_ODmiDSI/AAAAAAAAAz8/HlzyFTiPOAk/s320/0925-Morgauseclsp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335075850547236130" border="0" /></a></div></div><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.4 (Win32)"><style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I wanted to portray her as a mysterious, beauty, and let the viewer decide whether she is good or evil.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The painting was inspired by a photo by Henri Senders, a great photographer from Dordrecht, Netherlands, who has graciously allowed me to use some of his work for my paintings. You can see his work, which consists mostly of tasteful artistic nudes, <a href="http://gallery.zoom.nl/user/19997/hse097/">here</a>. When you get to the page, click on the link next to the words, <span style="font-style: italic;">Aantal foto's</span>.)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1233399139396932088?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-7670107303660252952009-05-05T17:37:00.006-06:002009-05-06T08:02:04.915-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SgDRJuY47kI/AAAAAAAAAz0/i8TuJGcAVcw/s1600-h/0924-Afternoon-Repose-500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 253px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SgDRJuY47kI/AAAAAAAAAz0/i8TuJGcAVcw/s320/0924-Afternoon-Repose-500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332491923808120386" border="0" /></a>Afternoon Repose<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br /><span class="Content">I recently went to the Meininger art supply store in Denver. (One great place!) While there, I learned of the Gamblin Torrit Grey Painting Competition.<br /><br /></span><span class="txt1">Every spring, Gamblin Artists Colors collects a wealth of pigments from itsTorit® Air Filtration system. They filter the air around the areas where they handle dry pigments so that the workers are not exposed to pigment dust. Rather than sending any of the high quality, expensive pigments into the landfill, Gamblin paint makers recycle them into "Gamblin Torrit Grey."<br /><br /><i></i>The mix of pigments is different every year, so Torrit Grey is always unique and will never be repeated. </span><br /><p class="Content">Torrit grey tubes are given out free to artists. By hosting the <a href="http://www.gamblincolors.com/torrit.grey/index.html" target="_blank">Torrit Grey Painting Competition</a>, Robert Gamblin invites painters to experiment with the first dimension of Gamblin Color Space: VALUE. See how light &amp; dark values can have as much impact as color.</p><p class="Content">This is my first effort, though it won't be my last, as I learned much from this exercise. The painting was 99.9 percent done with torrit grey and white. I think I dipped my brush in the black once, but didn't like it, so stuck with the grey and white.<br /></p><p class="Content">I owe a debt of gratitude to Rina H, a wonderful photographer from Germany, who has graciously allowed me to use one of her lovely photos as inspiration for this painting. She is very talented. Her work can be seen here. <a href="http://www.rinafoto.com/">www.rinafoto.com</a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/">Click here to go to my blog.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-767010730366025295?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-10977981475886782972009-04-29T10:26:00.004-06:002009-05-06T12:38:14.528-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SfiANqASiyI/AAAAAAAAAzs/umJMYn63TGk/s1600-h/0923Landscape-Lover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SfiANqASiyI/AAAAAAAAAzs/umJMYn63TGk/s320/0923Landscape-Lover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330151131095141154" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Landscape Lover<br />9 X 12 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /></div><br />This painting was inspired by a photo I took several weeks ago at the Denver Art Museum. The lady spent several minutes admiring these two landscapes.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1097798147588678297?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-21374152567673697842009-04-23T14:17:00.002-06:002009-04-23T14:28:15.783-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SfDOkP6RpRI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ykzLzK8-ebY/s1600-h/0922robin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SfDOkP6RpRI/AAAAAAAAAy8/ykzLzK8-ebY/s320/0922robin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327985481320867090" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Rockin' Robin<br />5 X 7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel.<br /></div><br />Another painting in honor of Spring. The birds are all crazy in love this time of the year, and this guy posed on this rock for me as he was looking for a mate.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2137415256767369784?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-15629271699147027332009-04-21T12:32:00.006-06:002009-04-21T12:46:00.999-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Se4RZJR0xzI/AAAAAAAAAy0/3ptCoidm8OU/s1600-h/0921-tulip.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Se4RZJR0xzI/AAAAAAAAAy0/3ptCoidm8OU/s320/0921-tulip.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327214532910958386" border="0" /></a>Tulip<br />5 X 7 inches<br />Oil on Masonite panel<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I love flowers and tulips are some of my favorites. I owe a debt of gratitude to Rina H, a wonderful photographer from Germany, who has graciously allowed me to use one of her photos as inspiration for this painting. She is very talented. Her work can be seen here. <a href="http://www.rinafoto.com">www.rinafoto.com</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1562927169914702733?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-3895999930466753552009-04-06T16:51:00.003-06:002009-04-14T10:50:50.699-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SeS-12BMP4I/AAAAAAAAAys/yo9wgEaF060/s1600-h/0920-Cardinal.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SeS-12BMP4I/AAAAAAAAAys/yo9wgEaF060/s320/0920-Cardinal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324590491701624706" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Cardinal<br />3 1/2 X 5 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />I have been working on the family taxes, so have not painted in the past few days. Decided to get back at it today with a little bird painting. I love birds and the cardinal is a favorite. (After all, I am a graduate of Coldwater High School, in Michigan. Home of the Cardinals!)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/">Click here to go to my blog.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-389599993046675355?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-57372098614387233102009-03-27T14:16:00.006-06:002009-04-04T19:08:51.140-06:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sc07HM09MII/AAAAAAAAAyc/dnbIcwgYmi0/s1600-h/07139+sunlight+bath+500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sc07HM09MII/AAAAAAAAAyc/dnbIcwgYmi0/s320/07139+sunlight+bath+500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317971729882886274" border="0" /></a>Sunlight Bath<br />5X7inches<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">oil on wood panel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sc06it5uwSI/AAAAAAAAAyU/HoaYBmFkEpA/s1600-h/07139+sunlight+bath+clsp.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 295px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sc06it5uwSI/AAAAAAAAAyU/HoaYBmFkEpA/s320/07139+sunlight+bath+clsp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317971103106122018" border="0" /></a><br />This painting was inspired by a photo by Vahid Naziri, a great photographer, who allowed me to use it. <a href="http://www.vahidnaziri.com/"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Check out his web site.</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/">Click here to go to my blog.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5737209861438723310?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-74040854430815699262009-03-21T16:52:00.001-06:002009-03-21T16:52:48.646-06:00I haven't painted in the past few days. Have been busy with taxes and other things. Hope to be able to carve out some time tomorrow. Spent a nice couple of hours this morning in Denver at, <a href="http://www.meininger.com/">Meininger Art Supply</a>. What a great store. It is like going to art supply heaven. There is so much to see you get dizzy.<br /><br />Since I am not painting today, I thought I would inject a bit of humor thanks to that wise sage, Father Guido Sarducci.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MK0ITXBWpHE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MK0ITXBWpHE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7404085443081569926?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-4210926479583508002009-03-16T17:53:00.002-06:002009-03-16T17:56:09.064-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sb7mkrAP-PI/AAAAAAAAAyE/vw3HgzJd1r4/s1600-h/0919-Mesmerized400.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sb7mkrAP-PI/AAAAAAAAAyE/vw3HgzJd1r4/s320/0919-Mesmerized400.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313938128037214450" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Mesmerized<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />This is based on a photo I took of a woman in the Denver Art Museum. I have taken great liberty with the color of the walls, (they were white) and some of the lighting, but hey, that's why we paint, so we can present our own view of our small corner of the world.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/">Click here to go to my blog.</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-421092647958350800?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-6971481157458620692009-03-03T16:20:00.004-07:002009-03-03T16:53:15.956-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sa29-mZWfkI/AAAAAAAAAx0/0fonqd7lXaA/s1600-h/0917stremylavenderfield.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/Sa29-mZWfkI/AAAAAAAAAx0/0fonqd7lXaA/s320/0917stremylavenderfield.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309108418896100930" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Saint-Remy Lavender Field<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />This is a view of a lavender field near Saint-Paul hospital, the asylum where Vincent Van Gogh stayed from May 1889 to May 1890, in Saint-Rémy de Provence. Vincent painted 143 paintings in and around the hospital. <br /><br />Ironically, I found out after I posted this earlier, that today is Vincent's birthday. He would be 156 today. Happy Birthday, Vincent!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm"></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-697148115745862069?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-71055315105054539862009-03-02T15:48:00.003-07:002009-03-03T18:18:35.078-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaxiMyJRgsI/AAAAAAAAAxs/zvQqdKcrUcA/s1600-h/0916-Rainy-Street.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaxiMyJRgsI/AAAAAAAAAxs/zvQqdKcrUcA/s320/0916-Rainy-Street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308726032521593538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Rainy Street</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oil on canvas panel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">5x7 inches</span><br /></div><br />I enjoy painting city streets and especially when they are wet.<br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay</a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7105531510505453986?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-60874111609374626662009-02-27T14:58:00.004-07:002009-02-27T15:17:26.678-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SahiYdTmnOI/AAAAAAAAAxk/46K28H78HRU/s1600-h/0915-ColoradoSunrise600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SahiYdTmnOI/AAAAAAAAAxk/46K28H78HRU/s320/0915-ColoradoSunrise600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307600333179362530" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Colorado Sunrise<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">16 x 20 inches<br />Oil on gallery wrapped canvas<br /></div><br />We have spectacular sunrises and sunsets here. I have about a thousand different photos of them, so thought it was time to use some paint trying to catch their beauty and grandeur. I did a small sunrise painting a few weeks ago, so decided to go larger. I mostly used a palette knife, with some brush work. This is a view from my bedroom window.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SahiRD1I1xI/AAAAAAAAAxc/XpD3wUw7L6Y/s1600-h/0915-ColoradoSunrisedetail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 243px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SahiRD1I1xI/AAAAAAAAAxc/XpD3wUw7L6Y/s320/0915-ColoradoSunrisedetail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307600206081611538" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm"></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-6087411160937462666?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-51572129184537945902009-02-25T15:48:00.004-07:002009-02-25T16:08:08.792-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaXLIWwPwSI/AAAAAAAAAxU/33bQcpe9JSE/s1600-h/0914-StandleyLakeMorning.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 248px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaXLIWwPwSI/AAAAAAAAAxU/33bQcpe9JSE/s320/0914-StandleyLakeMorning.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306871080333328674" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Standley Lake Morning<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />The painting is based on a photograph I took, while walking along the eastern edge of Standley Lake, in Westminster, Colorado, early one morning last October.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaXLCi3BWzI/AAAAAAAAAxM/H9Pt1DPDjqs/s1600-h/0914-StandleyLakeMorningdet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaXLCi3BWzI/AAAAAAAAAxM/H9Pt1DPDjqs/s320/0914-StandleyLakeMorningdet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306870980503755570" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-5157212918453794590?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-15418910845116582762009-02-24T16:30:00.001-07:002009-02-24T16:33:53.959-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaSDPfGGLiI/AAAAAAAAAxE/_S9ZGZljx-k/s1600-h/0913-Long%27sPeakintheMist500.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SaSDPfGGLiI/AAAAAAAAAxE/_S9ZGZljx-k/s320/0913-Long%27sPeakintheMist500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306510563017633314" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Long's Peak in the Mist<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />If you have ever visited Rocky Mountain National Park, you soon learn the highest mountain you see is the beautiful, Longs Peak. It is one of the 54 fourteeners, in the state. It is the highest peak (14,259 feet, 4,346 meters) along the Front Range and is prominent on the Denver skyline. It is named in honor of Major Stephen Long, who explored the area in the 1820s. (If you have a Colorado quarter, the mountain on the back is Longs Peak.)<br /><br />The painting is based on a photograph I took, from Standley Lake. This view a few hundred yards away from my front door. Oh how great it is to live in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlwNIswn3U">Rocky Mountain High</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1541891084511658276?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-9690307776772261872009-02-15T16:34:00.016-07:002009-02-17T10:41:16.240-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SZr2ZM1yBGI/AAAAAAAAAw8/44J1LABrh-c/s1600-h/0912-Beached-Beauty450.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SZr2ZM1yBGI/AAAAAAAAAw8/44J1LABrh-c/s320/0912-Beached-Beauty450.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303822423986144354" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Beached Beauty<br />8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel<br /><br /></div>It is deep in the heart of winter in most areas, so I thought it was time to come up with something a little warmer.<br /><br />I lived in Hawaii for six years, and loved going to the beach. The sun shinning brightly, the trade winds in your face, the waves rolling onto a strip of perfect sand, oh how I miss it sometimes. So with this one, I tried to come up with the ultimate beach fantasy, a beached beauty.<br /><br />I have tried hard with this photo, but can't get it to exactly match the painting. The blue water on the left is actually more turquoise.<br /><br />Below is a detailed view. Click the photo to enlarge it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SZr2ToEqtRI/AAAAAAAAAw0/YhNqU7nyXhM/s1600-h/0912-Beached-Beautydetail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 189px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SZr2ToEqtRI/AAAAAAAAAw0/YhNqU7nyXhM/s320/0912-Beached-Beautydetail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303822328217122066" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-969030777677226187?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-600384031113121662009-02-08T13:44:00.007-07:002009-02-08T14:10:13.318-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SY9I52SNQ_I/AAAAAAAAAwU/dneRaSGTghc/s1600-h/0911-WestminsterBridge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SY9I52SNQ_I/AAAAAAAAAwU/dneRaSGTghc/s320/0911-WestminsterBridge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300535445099987954" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Westminster Bridge Nocturne, London<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">I live in Westminster, Colorado, and we don't have any bridges similar to this. London is just a fantastic city, and I love painting scenes from there. I have walked across this bridge several times in the past, but not in the snow. (A driving rain once.) I love painting these night time views.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Below is a detailed view. Click the photo to enlarge it.<br /></div></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SY9IwiTPv9I/AAAAAAAAAwM/P0wq4c5rhQ8/s1600-h/0911-WestminsterBridgedetai.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 269px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SY9IwiTPv9I/AAAAAAAAAwM/P0wq4c5rhQ8/s320/0911-WestminsterBridgedetai.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300535285116813266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-60038403111312166?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-42968038314144703962009-02-05T15:19:00.003-07:002009-02-05T15:39:51.669-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYtl_H82rwI/AAAAAAAAAv0/EG_ZH48k2DU/s1600-h/0910-LadyintheAfternoon.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYtl_H82rwI/AAAAAAAAAv0/EG_ZH48k2DU/s320/0910-LadyintheAfternoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299441521671974658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Lady in the Afternoon</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oil on canvas panel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">5x7 inches</span><br /></div><br />I haven't painted a nude in awhile, so today decided to do one. A lovely lady in the afternoon light.<br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4296803831414470396?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-23534124002078818942009-02-03T14:05:00.003-07:002009-02-03T16:04:47.852-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYiyFtbEmdI/AAAAAAAAAvs/CPgYkAu17N8/s1600-h/0909-SnowyLondonRoofs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYiyFtbEmdI/AAAAAAAAAvs/CPgYkAu17N8/s320/0909-SnowyLondonRoofs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298680772763621842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Snowy London Roofs</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Oil on canvas panel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">5x7 inches</span><br /></div><br />I love London. It is a special place. Yesterday it was even more special because it was hit with the biggest snow storm in many years. It transformed the city into shades of white and blue. I looked at a number of photos and film clips of the snow, then decided to note the storm in my own moody way. This is a view looking over snowy roofs to Big Ben.<br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2353412400207881894?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-75548979895108359252009-01-30T14:54:00.003-07:002009-01-30T15:05:03.132-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYN3OyGcicI/AAAAAAAAAvk/y8mFfZgUz44/s1600-h/0844-Admiring-the-Lady-350.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 228px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYN3OyGcicI/AAAAAAAAAvk/y8mFfZgUz44/s320/0844-Admiring-the-Lady-350.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297208682568518082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">Admiring the Lady</span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">Oil on wood panel</span><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;">5x7 inches</span><br /></div><br />This is based on a photo I took of two girls admiring a sculpture in the Denver Art Museum.<br />I also did a painting of the girl in the shorts, last year, entitled, <a href="http://braukerart.blogspot.com/2008/03/dance-examination.html">The Dance Examiner</a>. I actually painted this several months ago, and tucked it away in a corner of my studio, then forgot to post it. Oh well, I have an excuse, I am 60.<br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings I currently have on eBay. </a> </span></span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7554897989510835925?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-28357886100091461632009-01-29T15:32:00.005-07:002009-02-05T08:17:52.195-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYIusU4NH4I/AAAAAAAAAvU/DvpWUHLb5AM/s1600-h/0908-Stanley-Hotel-Lobby.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYIusU4NH4I/AAAAAAAAAvU/DvpWUHLb5AM/s320/0908-Stanley-Hotel-Lobby.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296847450794696578" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Stanley Hotel Lobby<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on canvas panel.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /></div><br />In October I went to Estes Park, Colorado to the Stanley Hotel. It was built in 1909 by Freelan O. Stanley, who invented the Stanley Steamer. This is the hotel that inspired, Stephen King to write, The Shining. The film with Jack Nicholson, was not filmed there, but the mini series done in more recent years was. The painting is based on a photo I took. This is a view that looks out onto the large front porch, toward the mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park.<br /><br />Below is a photo I took of the Stanley that same day.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYL_3dAILII/AAAAAAAAAvc/RmMQcwEuPWk/s1600-h/stanley+Hotel.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SYL_3dAILII/AAAAAAAAAvc/RmMQcwEuPWk/s320/stanley+Hotel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297077439884176514" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-2835788610009146163?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-40299150081771134462009-01-27T15:27:00.003-07:002009-01-27T15:33:36.719-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SX-K0Oj7Y2I/AAAAAAAAAvM/s4mFfb_ZrPw/s1600-h/0907-Twin-Spires.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SX-K0Oj7Y2I/AAAAAAAAAvM/s4mFfb_ZrPw/s320/0907-Twin-Spires.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296104316677612386" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Twin Spires<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />This was my latest piece created to share on the <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes from Different Folks</a> web site created by Karin Jurick. Check it out. Lot's of interpretations of the same image.<br /><br />This is a view of a Victorian house in San Francisco, California.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4029915008177113446?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-6592349657623961472009-01-26T15:34:00.005-07:002009-02-05T08:18:47.297-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SX460akP7pI/AAAAAAAAAvE/D9QzHJc6uEU/s1600-h/0906-Sunrise.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SX460akP7pI/AAAAAAAAAvE/D9QzHJc6uEU/s320/0906-Sunrise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295734883993251474" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Sunrise From My Bedroom Window<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /></div><br />The sunrises in Colorado are as spectacular as the sunsets, but the ones in January seem to be the best of all. This is from a photo I took last week from my bedroom window. It was the first time I tried something like this, and will not be the last, although trying to capture the grandeur of such a sight is a daunting task.<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay, including this one. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-659234965762396147?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-43869250616105242252009-01-16T17:57:00.005-07:002009-02-14T11:34:09.896-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SXEuEDp_EOI/AAAAAAAAAuk/M9iOEriuPEY/s1600-h/0905-Chickadee.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SXEuEDp_EOI/AAAAAAAAAuk/M9iOEriuPEY/s320/0905-Chickadee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292061684372803810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"></span>Chickadee<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /></div><br />When we go for our walks in the morning, I always carry my camera with me. I love taking shots of birds and I have hundreds of them, so finally felt it was time to paint one. Some of our favorites are the little chickadees that flit about. I was lucky enough to catch this guy one day.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-4386925061610524225?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-71702768659054247832009-01-12T17:22:00.008-07:002009-01-16T17:56:45.646-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWve785sMRI/AAAAAAAAAtU/40yxq0uNzdE/s1600-h/0904-Long%27s-Peak,-Colorado.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWve785sMRI/AAAAAAAAAtU/40yxq0uNzdE/s320/0904-Long%27s-Peak,-Colorado.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290567308818526482" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Long's Peak, Colorado<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />If you have ever visited Rocky Mountain National Park, you soon learn the highest mountain you see is the beautiful, Longs Peak. It is one of the 54 fourteeners, in the state. It is the highest peak (14,259 feet, 4,346 meters) along the Front Range and is prominent on the Denver skyline. It is named in honor of Major Stephen Long, who explored the area in the 1820s. (If you have a Colorado quarter, the mountain on the back is Longs Peak.)<br /><br />The painting is based on a photograph I took, from the western end of Standley Lake. This view is about a mile away from my front door. Oh how great it is to live in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlwNIswn3U">Rocky Mountain High</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-7170276865905424783?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-81874011208068571962009-01-11T13:41:00.004-07:002009-01-11T13:45:27.248-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWpZoJC7_fI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V7co62fsOHo/s1600-h/0903-Jefferson-Memorial-Noc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWpZoJC7_fI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V7co62fsOHo/s320/0903-Jefferson-Memorial-Noc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290139258457947634" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Jefferson Memorial Nocturne<br />5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br /></div><br />This was my latest piece created to share on the <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">Different Strokes from Different Folks</a> web site created by Karin Jurick. Check it out. Lot's of interpretations of the same image.<br /><br />This one was a joy to paint. Oh how I love Prussian blue. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-8187401120806857196?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-90119129893239935522009-01-06T16:10:00.005-07:002009-01-08T12:02:35.568-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWZNuV2cmbI/AAAAAAAAAtE/qo0l-_d92Ek/s1600-h/0902-Tina.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWZNuV2cmbI/AAAAAAAAAtE/qo0l-_d92Ek/s320/0902-Tina.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289000270928058802" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Tina<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.</div><br />This painting was inspired by <a href="http://www.tinarena.com/st_pages/main.php">Tina Rena</a>, a lovely model from Holland, Michigan. She and her photographer husband, <a href="http://www.art-soulphotography.com/index.html">Craig</a>, teamed up on some photos they have graciously allowed me to use. She is a living work of art, and it is a joy to be able to paint her.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-9011912989323993552?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-36687468595893276432009-01-02T16:53:00.008-07:002009-01-04T14:26:56.548-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SV6pDsy4pvI/AAAAAAAAAsk/o3mZpi8UI7w/s1600-h/0901-Portrait-of-a-Lady.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SV6pDsy4pvI/AAAAAAAAAsk/o3mZpi8UI7w/s320/0901-Portrait-of-a-Lady.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286848893608830706" border="0" /></a>Portrait of a Lady<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">8 x 10 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.<br />NFS<br /></div><br />This is my portrait for the end of the year challenge, on Karin Jurick's blog, <a href="http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/">"Different Strokes from Different Folks."</a> We were all asked to send in a photo of ourselves, then Karin paired us up with another artist who would be doing our portrait. I was quite nervous about it because it is the first time I have done a portrait of someone who would actually see the painting. In the past couple of years, I have done a couple of small portraits based on photos I liked, but this was different. I was lucky enough to end up with this lovely lady, with the Mona Lisa smile. I hope she likes it.<br /><br />Now I know that this is Theresa Rankin. It was a pleasure to paint her.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWEoWlyXxFI/AAAAAAAAAss/MsCmmWBSSTU/s1600-h/bill+painting.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SWEoWlyXxFI/AAAAAAAAAss/MsCmmWBSSTU/s320/bill+painting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287551806075290706" border="0" /></a><br />Here is my portrait, painted by, <a href="http://theresarankinfineart.blogspot.com/">Theresa Rankin</a>, a terrific painter, who did a wonderful job with this. I really like it. Thank you Theresa.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-3668746859589327643?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-580769376152040527.post-10321264967418187562008-12-29T16:03:00.008-07:002008-12-29T16:37:16.864-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SVle6sPEMRI/AAAAAAAAAsc/hW_KrIB5HCM/s1600-h/08---Dark-Glasses-300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9EsmEvjxlHU/SVle6sPEMRI/AAAAAAAAAsc/hW_KrIB5HCM/s320/08---Dark-Glasses-300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285360000095760658" border="0" /></a>Dark Glasses<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">5 x 7 inches<br />Oil on wood panel.</div><br />This painting was inspired by Ashleigh, a lovely young woman from Ontario, Canada, who has a fashion blog, <a href="http://rantingsofafashionaddict.blogspot.com/">http://rantingsofafashionaddict.blogspot.com/</a>. I noticed a photo she had taken of herself in her room, and I thought it full of mystery and interesting light. She graciously allowed me to use the image. Thank you so much for that, Ashleigh.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brauker.com/available.htm">Click here to see the paintings available for sale on my web site.</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZbillbrauk">Click here to see the paintings that I currently have on eBay. </a></span></span></span></div><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://brauker.com/art1.htm">Click here to go to Bill Brauker Art</a></span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/580769376152040527-1032126496741818756?l=braukerart.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bill Braukerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077491068031765890noreply@blogger.com4