Category Archives: Art, General

New iPad Art: Fairy Lilies in Negative Space; Pat’s Scarecrow in the Garden; at the O’s Game

I’ve done a few iPad images lately — good fun while sitting around at night.   I just finished a drawing with the ArtRage pencil tool of a sprinkle of fairy lilies against a background clump of ornamental grasses.

Fairy Lilies, original iPad painting, 2013, 1:1 aspect ratio

Fairy Lilies, original iPad painting, 2013, 1:1 aspect ratio

 

And I also had fun doing a more stylized rendition of Pat’s scarecrow standing in our garden, stopping passersby with its cuteness, but doing nothing to deter the critters from eating our veggies.  Pat actually built this wooden adjustable man, based on one our son Sam had seen in a magazine and really wanted.  Sam enjoyed it for years and then Will inherited it.  Pat has now re-clothed it in his old duds for scarecrow duty.

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And I did a quick wild fun sketch of the ballpark when Pat and I went to an Oriole’s game in Baltimore last weekend.

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Portrait of My Dad — On the Occasion of His 90th Birthday!

I’m sure you’ve been too busy to notice, but I haven’t been writing here for the last few months.  I was fully occupied, painting a portrait of my dad, Jeremiah J. O’Keefe III (‘Jerry’).

Here it is, with a few words about my dad.  I’ll say more about him later, as well as about the painting process that greatly resembled the ‘perils of Pauline’.

portrait of Maureen's Dad on the occasion of his 90th birthday

Dad at 90 in Command Central. Oil.

Dad is a decorated WWII Marine ace pilot; successful businessman; member of the MS State Legislature; two term Mayor of Biloxi, MS; lifelong Democrat with a passionate belief in the equality of all people; philanthropist, having served as a substantial donor to, and principal fundraiser for, the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, MS and the Frank Gehry-designed Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS.  Last but not least, he is the father of 13 children and a multitude of grand & great-grandchildren.  Congrats on 90 great years, Dad!