Blue Dog

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…in the books," he says. "The words only reinforce my ideas, concepts and feelings about why I continue to paint." Each of the artist's galleries (he opened a second in 1990 in Carmel, Calif.) displays about 30 original paintings. But Rodrigue doesn't like to sell more than 10 a month. "We're in a transitional time now, because we're selling too many," he says. "I've been raising prices, to stop the flow of paintings. But that's not helping either."