Karen Cooper is showing at the Gallery during July.  Here is a little info about what you might expect.

Karen is a self taught painter, who spent her college years at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, sampling just about every department available, with textile and fashion design eventually seizing most of her attention.  Although based in the home economics department, that course of study required a fair amount of drawing classes from the art department, and the introduction to life drawing was made.  Many years and many experiences later, the focus of Karen’s work is again with the figure, intrigued by the stories that can be told with paintings of people, their postures, and their relationships to each other.  Karen’s current work is acrylic paint on canvas, with the occasional mural added in just for fun.


I paint with acrylic paint on gallery wrapped canvas.  Occasionally I do ‘color sketches’ on paper which sometimes end up at exhibit as matted paintings.   I do not make reproductions of any of my paintings, so each one that you look at is a unique rendering of my point of view.

Enjoy, and thanks for looking!
Karen


Karen Cooper Website

Dogs, dogs, dogs and a cat or two.  
Stephanie Fitzsimmons is the Woof Factory were she paints lots of happy dogs.  Most of them are in-your-face close ups of canines of every breed and personality.  Some of these you really do feel like you are about to get a sloppy wet lick at any moment.  

If you go to the following link you can not only see other examples, but you can also order a painting of your dog.
http://wooffactory.wordpress.com/paintings

If you haven't made it to see Cindy Skeie and Ron Durnavich's show at the Urbandale Public Library Art Gallery there is still time.  Here is a virtual sample.