Commissioned Portrait: Winnie, 2025
Meet Winnie and Lambie, or one of her many Lambies, just giving you her best soft brown-eyed look. I love
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Featured Artwork: “A Nap on the Feed Sacks,” Watercolor, 1994
Twenty years ago when I was still experimenting with other media than pencil and pastel, with which I felt most
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Featured Artwork: “Bath, Interrupted,” and What Mariposa Thought of Her Portrait
Yes, it’s my little butterfly Mariposa giving me that “I’ve so got you wrapped around my fluffy tail” expression as
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Featured Artwork: Portrait of Marley and Boo
This is Wednesday’s “Featured Artwork” post on Thursday. I had a new portrait (2025) to share but somehow I lost
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Featured Artwork: Calico Cat Mysteries Book 28, “Olivia’s Cat Cafe Caper”
Cats and books? No problem This cover went through a few ideas and has an interesting back story. I
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Commissioned Portraits: Samantha, and Honey, Tommy and Andy, Two Rescue Families
I painted this portrait, and the other below, 32 years ago for a woman I worked with. As the subject
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Featured Artwork: The Mystery of the Daily Sketch I Never Posted
While this may look like any other daily sketch it’s unique in its provenance—I sketched it, but never signed or
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Commissioned Portrait: Baba and Ham, 2025
Baba and Ham are Chartreux cats, a portrait of brothers commissioned to be given as a gift to a friend.
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Featured Artwork: Calico Cat Mysteries Book 27, “Olivia’s Enchanting CATventure”
This time it’s Olivia solving the mystery of the black smoke cats who enchant a whole neighborhood, bringing strange thoughts
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Featured Artwork: Klepto Cat Book 77, “Rags Lands a Job”
I really like how this cover turned out, grimy warehouse and all, but especially the cats. Patricia described the story
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