Featured Artwork and January Desktop Calendar: Waiting Around the Corner
From 2016: “This bright morning sunlight gets us all up and around and doing interesting things. It may look as
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Commissioned Portraits: A Quartet of (Almost) Monochromatic Sketches
I had a wonderful little “family of pets” commission a few years ago and it’s a great sample of how
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Featured Artwork: Five Favorite September Sketches
Front and Back Giuseppe and Jelly Bean were sharing the same spot of sun on the landing today, contentedly tucked
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Commissioned Portrait: Bandit
Yes, I do paint portraits of dogs! Bandit was commissioned by my childhood nextdoor neighbor for her brother for Christmas.
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Daily Sketch Reprise: A Happily Dreaming Kitty, 2013
Mr. Sunshine always seems very pleased with himself, especially when he’s working on a good kitty dream. He settled himself
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Daily Sketch Reprise: I’ll Take Three Lumps, 2012
Lumps of coal, or lumps of sugar? I was thinking lumps of sugar. The boys “occupied” my desk, as usual,
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Giuseppe Resting, 2014
So Giuseppe rests all the time, why draw him now? Just because he looked so velvety black there on my
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Daily Sketch Reprise: A Vigilant Nap
This has become one of my most popular daily sketches, and it’s the one where I really feel I hit
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Relaxed, 2013
Today I’m still exploring all those interesting foreshortened Giuseppe angles since I had such difficulty yesterday although it came out
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Daily Sketch Reprise: When the Bag Swallowed Mimi, 2014
You know how they are with these canvas shopping bags—they hardly hit the floor before you see a cat slowly
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