Artwork for Artist: Billie Crain

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13730	East Meets West (Orchids) Original watercolor This painting was inspired by the work of Lian Quan Zhen. I named this floral 'East Meets West' because it contains elements of the Chinese style of spontaneous painting with what Zhen calls the western style of painting which involves detail work. I chose orchids as my subjects because they are so exotic looking and they worked well with the combined techniques.	1	$100.00
13729	Bassett Hound Original watercolor Elvis Presley's, 'You Aint Nothin' But a Hound Dog' plays in my head when I see a bassett. They always look like their world is about to end and they'd like to 'cry all the time'. My aunt had a bassett hound named Bridget many years ago. This dog was smart, loving, head strong and certainly not depressed. She lived the life of a diva and enjoyed every minute of it.	1	$100.00
13728	Maine Coon Kitten Original watercolor One of the characteristics of Maine Coon cats is their thick coats suited for cold climates. Because of this, I put this little fella into a wintery setting complete with flying snowflakes. The snowflake effect is produced by sprinkling salt granules onto damp watercolor.	1	$100.00
13486	Crabby Cat Birthday Notecard Crabby Cat Birthday note card (blank inside) with envelope. The perfect card for those special family members and friends that love seeing another birthday roll around. Yea...right.	8	$2.50
13080	Pond Life III (Turtle) Watercolor on matboard.� Framed and float-mounted	1	$70.00
13078	Pond Life I (Frog) Watercolor on matboard.� Framed and float-mounted	1	$90.00
12637	Snowflake Flies Christmas Note Card Christmas note card with envelope	4	$2.50
12636	Crabby Cat Christmas Note Card Christmas note card with envelope	6	$2.50
12589	Catitude Note Cards (Set of 4) Set of 4 different watercolor print "Catitude" note cards (blank inside)	2	$10.00
11666	Pomeranian Original watercolor Pomeranians are wonderful dogs....smart, energetic and very protective of their owners. A few years ago I was asked to be present at the birth of a litter of poms. The mother dog belonged to a good friend of mine who breeds these dogs. This was my first experience attending such an event, playing assistant 'midwife' and it was so exciting to see each new pup enter the world. I've painted this pomeranian in a very loose style, applying juicy watercolor onto wet paper with quick expressive brush strokes. I paid more attention to detail when painting the eyes as they must convey the soul of the dog.	1	$100.00
11665	Catnap III Original watercolor This Tonkinese cat looks very comfortable in his slumber. Tonkinese cats are a mixture of Burmese and Siamese. All cats looks like little angels when they sleep and this fella is no exception.	1	$110.00
11663	Catnap I Original watercolor This is one of my own cats, Digby caught in the act of taking a snooze. He looks like such an angel when he's sleeping and I wanted to convey this in the painting with soft colors applied in a very loose style. He's also one of the few cats I've met that adores babies and little kids. Even when they pull his tail he's so patient with them and never growls or scratches. He seems more like a dog than a cat...most of the time anyway.	1	$110.00
11662	Japanese White Iris Original watercolor on gessoed paper	1	$175.00
11228	Gingerbruiser Original watercolor Gingerbruiser was inspired by one of the tomcats in my neighborhood. He was the neighborhood bully and 'top cat', so to speak, and liked to remind the other cats of his superiority.	1	$75.00
11227	Undercover Kitty Original watercolor Undercover Kitty was inspired by my youngest female cat, Gizmo. She was so named because she was all huge eyes and ears as a kitten and looked like Gizmo from the movie, Gremlins. She's always been terribly skittish, can run like the wind and hides under my bed covers when company comes calling.	1	$75.00
11225	Green Apple Original color pencil matted	1	$40.00
11224	The Cat That Swallowed The Moon Reproduction print matted	2	$45.00
11223	Miss Willmott's Ghost II Macro color photograph of Miss Willmott's Ghost, a white sea holly.	1	$225.00
11222	Miss Willmott's Ghost I Macro color photograph of Miss Willmott's Ghost, a white sea holly. About Miss Willmott Ellen Willmott (1858-1934) was an independently wealthy British amateur horticulturist who had several plants named after her, including a white double flowering lilac and a pale, pink edged rose. The best known plant that bears her name, however, is a biennial sea holly, eryngium gigantium, known as 'Miss Willmott's Ghost.' Apparently Miss Willmott enjoyed sprinkling the seeds of this particular plant about -- in effect, leaving her "ghosts" to appear in the gardens of her friends and acquaintences long after she had departed those places. These plants were also said to match her 'prickly' personality. She began gardening at her home at Waverly Place at seventeen years of age. In her later years, the never married Miss Willmott became a bit eccentric and cantankerous. She bought properties in Italy and France and continued creating gardens. At one time she had one hundred gardeners on her payroll. She was arrested for shoplifting (the charges were eventually dropped), carried a revolver in her purse and booby trapped her daffodils to thwart bulb thieves. When she died penniless in 1934, the garden which once held over 100,000 species of expertly culitvated plants from the world over, was sold to pay her debts. I've grown this plant in my moongarden for several years. Even though it's a biennial, it's a prolific reseeder. The plant at maturity is approximately 2-3 (or more) feet tall with multiple stems erupting from the main stem, each bearing a 2-3 inch wide set of bracts surrounding umbels of florets similar to thistles.	1	$225.00
11221	Cat'ching A Midnight Snack Reproduction print Here's a bit of whimsy inspired by a friend of mine. I have a 'thing' for cats and the Moon, by the way. To me, they just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly.	1	$45.00
11219	Karaoke Cat Style Reproduction print of original watercolor Karaoke Cat Style was inspired by a simple photo of a cat yawning. In that same photo was a flower bud roughly in the position of a microphone. American Idol popped into my head and the concept was born! Why not replace the bud with a flower more microphone-like(in this case, a prairie coneflower) and turn a yawn into a song?	2	$35.00
9680	Nosy Rosy Reproduction print Every cat is a snoop, no doubt about it. They're naturally curious creatures. I love the distortion on this, as if this snoopy kitty is peeking out of the painting at the viewer through a 'hole'. Cats always seem to peek nose first. Smell must tell them more than sight.	1	$35.00
9679	The Cat That Swallowed The Moon Reproduction print Cats tend to be nocturnal and everyone has seen pictures and paintings of cats lined up on a fence backlit by the Moon. I decided to take things a step further with this concept. Just a bit of whimsy. The cat was inspired by a fat tabby named Peek-Peek who sits on the sofa on his rear end like a human, feet splayed out in front of him with his fat tummy resting in his lap. Really!	2	$35.00
9458	Nosy Rosy Notecard Reproduction notecard from humorous series 'Catitude'	8	$3.50
9456	Gingerbruiser Reproduction print Gingerbruiser was inspired by one of the tomcats in my neighborhood. He was the neighborhood bully and 'top cat', so to speak, and liked to remind the other cats of his superiority.	1	$35.00
8115	Undercover Kitty Reproduction card with envelope from humorous series, 'Catitude'	5	$3.50
8114	Karaoke Cat Style Reproduction card with envelope from humorous series, 'Catitude'	5	$3.50
8113	Gingerbruiser Reproduction card with envelope from humorous series, 'Catitude'	8	$3.50
7754	Sea Turtle Unframed print	2	$30.00
7753	Yellow Wall Unframed print	2	$25.00
7752	Catch of the Day Unframed print Double matted	2	$30.00
7504	Waterlily Original watercolor	1	$125.00
7430	Daffodil Original watercolor	1	$125.00