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Mother’s and Father’s Day Specials

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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A Very Special Mother’s Day in 2006

Several years ago, a couple who had each had me paint portraits of their cats Dusty and DeVille as gifts for each other decided they wanted to give her mother a portrait of her mother’s dog and two cats as a Mother’s Day gift. They all shared the same love

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Portrait: Sophie and Ellie, Being Very Good

This portrait of two best friends is very autumnal in tone, and I always think of it as being an autumn portrait for all the fallen leaves around Sophie, a border collie, and Ellie, a bichon frisé. I never know how or from where a portrait will come to me.

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“You Are the Most Beautiful, Precious Girl…”

Would you choose to adopt a kitty who was known to have, ahem, litterbox issues? And after hearing many warnings and so much failure in this area, do you think you’d be the one to find the magic solution? Christie was brought to a veterinarian for treatment, but her owners

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That Very Special Father’s Day Portrait

So Bernie calls me with an idea for a portrait as a gift for Father’s Day, which is three weeks away. I’ve had less time to produce a portrait so I ask her for a few details, and then I begin to doubt. We need to have Jay, who is

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Fred and Simba, a Cat and His Guy

In 2010 my friend and customer Carolyn Kozlowski of My Three Cats & Co., Inc. said she’d like to commission me to create a portrait of her brother-in-law and his cat as a gift for his retirement from 40 years of teaching high school biology. The cat, Simba, is a

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Mother’s and Father’s Day Special, Commissioned Pet Portraits

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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A Gift for all Moms and Dads

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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A Very Special Mother’s Day in 2006

Several years ago, a couple who had each had me paint portraits of their cats Dusty and DeVille as gifts for each other decided they wanted to give her mother a portrait of her mother’s dog and two cats as a Mother’s Day gift. They all shared the same love

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Kitties and Curtains and Watercolors

Back when I was just beginning in animal portraiture a friend and fellow cat rescuer showed me photos of her cats, Buster and Kitty, and offered me prints in case I’d ever like to create paintings from any of them. Though I have difficulty just keeping up with my own

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