Featured Artwork: A Recipient’s View of a Portrait
I’ll often share a recipient’s remarks about a portrait in my articles about them, but I’ve never had the honor
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Commissioned Portrait: Feebee, Amber, Buckley, Allegra and Ruby, and the Red Maple
I painted a very special portrait recently, special because it was commissioned as a gift for a friend’s
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Commissioned Portraits: Samantha, and Honey, Tommy and Andy, Two Eras
THERE HAS NOT been another kitty since Samantha, though her rescuer had loved and rescued cats nearly all her life.
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Commissioned Portrait: Family of Seven, in Pencil
A portrait of seven cats all in the same image, in a composition that makes sense for all of them
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Commissioned Portrait: Formerly Feral, Rescued Peaches
Peaches was rescued as a kitten from a feral colony, socialized, and adopted, and lived 17 years with one person
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Sooty”
SOMETIMES IT DOESN’T MATTER how much sentiment is attached to adopting a cat, how much people pay for a cat,
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A Great Rescue and Portrait: Buster Lookin’ at His Toes
SOMETIMES THE CAT you least expect will steal your heart, and you don’t really realize that until years have gone
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A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait: “Trumpet and Jasper”
CATS CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE and steal your heart and change your life. These two cats came from anonymous places
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Rescue Story: The August Kitten
In the middle of the night during a July thunderstorm many years ago a couple awoke to hear what sounded
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Commissioned Portrait: Stephanie and Jazz
Every once in a while I get to paint a portrait of the relationship between a human and an animal,
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