Here is the first set of garden flags featuring my artwork!I was so excited at the first set of them that I put all of them in my front yard, at least for the photos. Even after I’d set up just the first flag it was gratifying to see it
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Even though it was rather cold for a spring morning, Mimi enjoyed the sun on her front while Mewsette enjoyed the sun on her back by the door. What was I sketching a year ago today? Kelly With Grapes and Apple I’ve left this one full size because I want
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I have a sketch for later today, but I love this one so much I thought it should stand alone. If you’ve been following my sketches for any length of time, you’ve probably seen gradual changes that begin with a particular sketch—adding new media, using a new color palette, finding
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A nest of papers on the desk is as good a bed as anything else when Mimi has to keep a close eye on the human for the afternoon. Of course, the arm has to be stretched out to be certain of covering maximum area. What was I sketching a
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The forget-me-nots are beginning to bloom as they grow taller more quickly, an inch or two each day, in the pots in the windowbox under my dining room window. Each year when I transplant them from the yard and put the pots in place I remember Sophie and this particular
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In the early 90s I painted a portrait of an 18-year-old Himalayan cat with an attitude, Tibbie, below, and in 2009 finished this portrait of “Buddy”, above, for the same couple. Their pets had been their children, and while there had been other cats and dogs these two were singled
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In a turnabout of care, Mewsette gently gives her little mom a bath by the sunny window. Mimi deserves a little gentle care from her kids now and then, and Mewsette is always good for that. The lilac is full and green outside the window and the morning sun so
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Mewsette has her bath before the round antique mirror at the top of the stairs, such a girl. It was all I could do to get a quick outline of her in place before she came over to the corner of the wardrobe on which she sits so she could
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It may look as if Mr. Sunshine is in a good position to ambush me as I come up the stairs and his expression may support this idea, but he is actually demanding that I make the sun come back to his box. Sorry, Mr. Sunshine, we can’t do that
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I guess that’s what brothers are for. Or it could just be that Bean dozed off, sitting up, looking out the window, while Giuseppe decided to watch me in the kitchen. Bean’s got a few extra lumps on his outline because he moved. Click here to see other daily sketches.
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