Here are portraits of some best furry friends. This gallery will evolve as it features a few golden oldies and the newest from my easel. And little stories will pop up as I see them! Some works are available as prints, and those will also appear in the The Studio’s Store > Prints tab. Enjoy your visit!
Oil on Belgian linen; 28 x 21”
Collection Nelson
Watch Hill, RI
©2023 Karen Killian with credit and thanks to Alexander Killian Rudkin for reference photography
Oakley, with her good buddy, Chuck, on the porch at Riverside, his wonderful antique store* next to the studio at The Brush Factory, Centerbrook, CT. Oakley and Riverside and that studio are all gone now. Buildings are easy. And friends keep. But the dog… I still miss you, Little O!
Oil on linen; 9 x 11″
Collection Charles Hedge
©2008 Karen Killian
*Is that an “antique store” or an “antiques store”? 😜
Goldiva’s Annie Get Your Gun; “Oakley”
Oil on Linen; 16 x 20″
Collection of the Artist
Godspeed, little girl.
©2012 Karen Killian
Oil on Belgian linen; 36 x 36”
Collection Casavant
Tryon, North Carolina
©2022 Karen Killian
More about this painting in the blog: https://watermarkstudio.com/the-bond
~ waiting for you
Oil on Belgian linen; 12 x 16”
Collection Chambers
Hobe Sound, FL
©2021 Karen Killian
~ been waitin’ for you, Blue!”
Oil on Belgian linen; 12 x 16”
Collection Chambers
Hobe Sound, FL
©2021 Karen Killian
~ in “king of the world” mode
Flagstaff, Arizona
Oil on Belgian linen; 26 x 20”
Collection Morris
©2019 Karen Killian
“Karen we received our painting today and its even more gorgeous in person. Sending a photo of the model who definitely approves. Thanks so much you were so easy to work with and you gave a piece of Duffy that will be with us forever.
Patty” -Scottsdale, AZ
~ Pure and simple.
Oil on Belgian linen; 17 x 20”
Collection Booher
Orlando, FL
©2021 Karen Killian
“I do so fit in this chair!!!”
Oil on Belgian linen; 23 x 18”
Collection Morris
Scottsdale, Arizona
©2020 Karen Killian
Oil on Belgian linen; 19 x 24”
©2019 Karen Killian
Available in The Studio’s Store > Originals
“If you drop the muddy lacrosse ball RIGHT in front of the tractor, he’ll have to stop, pick it up, and throw it again! At least 💯 times!” -Advanced Human Training 2.0
“Gator”
Oil on Belgian linen; 12 x 14”
Collection Nelson
©2019 Karen Killian
"She's a pretty girl with a big heart”, and, come on, I have to add “funny prima donna”!!
Oil on Belgian Linen; 17 x 22”
Collection McCorey
©2018 Karen Killian
Elvis “ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog!”
in the “Bassett grass”
on the golf course at
Roaring Gap, NC
Oil on Linen; 13 x 15″
Collection Bassett
©2009 Karen Killian
Darby, a Soft-coated Wheaton Terrier, minding the store
Fletcher & Lee Antiques and Interior Design, Highlands, NC
Oil; 16 x 20″
Collection Fletcher & Lee
© 2009 Karen Killian
Sommers Midnight Enchanter, Master Hunter
Hobe Sound, FL
Oil on Belgian linen; 19 x 25"
Collection Wolf
©2016 Karen Killian
Patrick
Hobe Sound, Florida
Oil on Belgian linen; 14 x 17”
Collection Geupel
©2021 Karen Killian
~portrait of a tennis ball~
Oakley in Hobe Sound ~whew, long day, but I think the ball is sufficiently squished!
Oil on linen; 9 x 11"
Private collection
©2012
Simply celebrating our unspoken, unbreakable, priceless bond…
Oakley 'n me
Oil on Linen; 8 x 10″
©2007 Karen Killian
Collection of the Artist
“We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It’s the best deal man has ever made” ~M. Facklam
These two actually rode around Lake Huron like this, one on the lookout, one just cruisin’.
Desbarats, Ontario
Oil on linen; 14 x 18"
Collection Boden
©2002 Karen Killian
“Sunmark’s Cheshire Tide”
Pencil on paper; 11 x 14”
Collection of the artist
©1989 Karen Killian
My first Golden; my first Golden drawing. She was literally sittin’ on the dock of the Chesapeake bay, in an irresistible pose, and she started this whole thing!
Home is where the dog is!
Oakley
Oil on Belgian linen; 12 x 15”
©2005 Karen Killian
Private Collection
