July Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: Garden Sketch With Mimi
Even though I used this painting as featured artwork and desktop calendar in July 2014, I chose to feature it
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Featured Artwork: New Klepto Cat Book Cover, “A Christmas to Purr About”
Patricia Fry’s Klepto Cat mystery number 22, A Christmas to Purr About, came around at the end of January so
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Peaches and Peonies, a Moment of Inspiration in June
While Peaches appears in dozens of sketches and hundreds of photos, this is the painting that captures her, pretty, petite,
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Commissioned Portrait: Ripley, Murphy, O.G., Veda and Missy Kitty
The process is different for each portrait I create depending on what’s needed. This portrait needed just about all the
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June Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: Kitty and Buster
“Cats looking out windows” has always been a favorite theme of mine. Add the delicacy of sheer ruffled curtains and
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Commissioned Portrait: My First Commissioned Portrait
Meet Passion, Honor, Temperance, Joey and Spot, the feline family with the distinction of being the first of my commissioned
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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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Featured Artwork: Sophie and Ellie, Being Very Good
I’ve been adding my canine artwork to Portraits of Animals so I thought I’d take this week to share a
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Featured Artwork: Fifth Anniversary of Two Cats After van Gogh
It’s the fifth anniversary of this piece of artwork. It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I saw
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Featured Artwork: “Kelly’s Morning Bath” Block Print on Handmade Papers
It’s coming around again to spring, and even the little bit of the lilac that’s left outside the big north
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