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Garden Flag Giveaway

Eight two-sided garden flags are now available in my Etsy shop, each one a completely different style and theme to suit any garden—fine art, Impressionist, Warhol-esque and “after van Gogh”, black cats, pink cats, tabby cats and calico cats, and of course, those tortie girls! These first eight flags actually

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Featured Artwork: “Catnapped” Book Cover

I had the opportunity to create a painted book cover illustration, with cats! Meet Rags and Layla, who figure prominently in Catnapped, by Patricia Fry. Her book has just been released as an e-book, and I have the final cover and the link below. So many book covers for mysteries

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Lazy Saturday Afternoon

It’s Giuseppe in the front in teal, Mewsette draped off the edge in green, and Jelly Bean in purple. Rather than use the colors I associate with each of them, these colors came about because of the reflections on each of them from the window light, the mirror behind them

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Father’s Day Animal Portrait Special, Only Two More Days

Did your parents pass on to you a love of animals? Did they decide one day you needed an animal companion of your own, starting you on a lifelong path of sharing your days with cats and dogs and birds and bunnies and ferrets and any other animal that came

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Daily Photo Reprise: Hugging My Cookie for Hug Your Cat Day

Yes, hugging Cookie and giving her a scratch on the chin, just the way she liked it! In August 2011 when I was promoting Great Rescues Calendar and Gift Book the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article in the South/West edition about me and my artwork, Carnegie Artist Creates Calendar of

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Daily Sketch: Easy Like Sunday, the Sketch

“On Sundays, we can sleep wherever we want.” Like on the kitchen island? Like you don’t do that already? Giuseppe and Bean settled down here because I was working here, though not with food, except for eating some lunch. I was paying attention to the countertop, so they decided to

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Congratulations to the Winner of Odilia’s Sketch, and AWS of Kennebunk

Congratulations to Paulette Smith, you are the highest bidder for Odilia’s sketch! Paulette is a long-time cat rescuer, and also the owner of several other of my original sketches. Paulette, you can visit the donation page for the Animal Welfare Society of Kennebunk, ME to make your tax-deductible donation. When

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Purple Toe Cleaning

Mimi was charming when totally engaged in this little bath on the kitchen floor in the morning sun. She comfortably reclined on the floor, randomly licking her toes and legs and looking out the door at the birds on the deck. Such a happy little moment, so simple. Back to

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Meet Blind Kitten Odilia, Win Her Sketch and Support Fostering for Shelters!

Included in the joy of creating my art is putting my art to use for the good of causes I believe in. Today’s featured artwork is a sketch of a very special kitten, and you have a chance to own this sketch by bidding on it and sending the winning

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Daily Sketch Reprise: Five Cats

This includes all five of the black cats, not all at the same time, of course, I sketched them one by one as they moved around. I was also on the phone while I was sketching, but I was determined to get them in this activity. It was a very

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