Blog | Shirley Phelan Art

Back to the First Citizens

Not sure what to say about this guy. I got him blocked in quickly and thought he would be done fast, but that wasn't to be. The more I...

Jane and Vic

I generally paint my portraits from photographs. Often these are black and white and I use whatever colors strike my fancy to communicate...

First Citizen Woman

I thought it was time to add a woman to my group. I found her image in an archive and immediately fell in love with her. She is young,...

First Citizens

Continuing on the theme of first citizen paintings that I started about a year ago, is this latest work. He is still drying, and will...

Getting old isn't easy

My latest completed work was more of a challenge than I expected. I wanted to paint a Native American with signs of age and time on his...

Bears

A couple of years ago I was cleaning up at the end of a painting class and I was regretting that I was about to scrape a good bit of...

Progress

While my other WIPs are giving me grief, I was able to put one in the done column, at least for now, while it dries. Then I can see it...

WIPs

Is a painting ever really finished, or is it always a work-in-progress. I try to get to the finish line, but then I look at a painting...

Bison or Buffalo

Call them Bison or call them Buffalo, this is my first take on painting animals of any size. I wanted them to be somewhat abstract but...

I think I found it...

Ever since I painted first Crazy Horse I, almost a year ago, I have been drawn more and more to the idea of Western Art. As I paint...