I have spent a lot of time on the plantations in southern Georgia, and the Georgia/Florida Field Trial Club’s annual Bird Dog Field Trial is almost an annual event for me. I’ve got a wealth of reference photos that come from the trial. Usually I was on a horse, but many times I was running on foot alongside the gallery so I could get some great reference. I like painting a drawing people as much as dogs and horses, so that is why a lot of people are in the artwork.
Bird Dog Field Trial Graphite – “Brace Beginning”
Bird Dog Graphite – “Training Day”
A scene from South Georgia of two handlers working on training their pointer.
Bird Dog Field Trail Graphite Drawing
Field Trial Scene from South Georgia. My favorite trial – the GA/FL Owner’s Trial held every February for the past 100 plus years.
Bird Dog Field Trial Graphite – “The Stragglers”
A Bird Dog Field Trial Scene in the south.
Horse Graphite – “Watering Hole
This was a scene after a bird dog field trial just before everyone went home.
Mule Wagon and Driver Graphite – “Wagon Number One”
A scene from a field trial of rider, mules and wagon. I wanted it to be a panorama.
Bird Dog Trial Graphite – “Wagin’ Train”
Another South Georgia field trial scene. This time showing the pointer ready to run in the back.
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Size: Apx: 18″ x 25″
Horses and Riders Oil Painting – “The Gallery”
This was the gallery at the owner’s trial at Horseshoe Plantation.
Bird Dog Field Trial Oil Painting – “The Congregation”
I had a lot of fun doing this because many of the folks in this picture are friends. It’s a scene from the Georgia/Florida owner’s trial.
Bird Dog Field Trial Graphite - "Ted's Train"
Wasn’t sure what to call this but because Ted Turner’s wagon is prominent, I just called it Ted’s Train.
Bird Dog Field Trial Watercolor Painting – “Ted’s Parade”
I was riding on a horse of to the side of the gallery at the Georgia/Florida owner’s trial at Avalon Plantation.
Field Trial Watercolor Painting – “Pit Stop”
Another scene from a bird dog field trial. I used to paint a lot in high school with watercolor over textured gesso. So I tried it again.
Wagon and Live Oak Landscape Graphite – “Live Oak”
While getting ready for the GA/FL owner’s trial I saw this wagon and rider from the plantation next door sitting in the mist of the morning under my friend’s massive live oak.
Bird Dog Field Trial Watercolor Painting – “Kathy’s Brace”
I wasn’t sure when painting this which brace it was, but it turned out to be my friend Kathy from one of the plantations near Thomasville, GA.
Bird Dog Field Trial Oil Painting – “Full Alert”
Another of my GA/FL field trial scenes...
Bird Dog Field Trial Oil Painting – “100th Running of the Georgia Florida
I was commissioned to paint this oil to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Georgia/Florida Field Trial Club.
Bird Dog Field Trial Graphite – “Yielding the Right of Way”
This is a scene from a field trial which basically looks like the horse and rider are yielding the right of way to a gallery going by.
Pointer and Handler Oil Painting – “Under Foot”
This is a scene I basically created using several photos of a field trial and it just all came together correctly.
Horse and Rider Watercolor Portrait – “Running Order”
This is a portrait of a friend of mine looking at the running order at the Georgia/Florida “owner’s trial.”
Bird Dog Field Trial Graphite – “Brace Beginning”
A panorama of the handlers, dogs and gallery getting ready for the start of the next brace at a GA/FL field trial in South Georgia.
Bird Dog Field Trial Oil Painting – “Before the Georgia-Florida”
One of my first oil paintings after getting back into painting, this is a scene of two guys chatting before the GA/FL owner’s trail was to begin at Ted Turner’s Avalon Plantation.
