Commissioned Portraits: Pearle, and Belle
Meet Pearle, a sweet and very loved Bichon Frisé, the subject of one of my current portraits in progress. It
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pastel painting
A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portraits: Samantha, and Honey, Tommy and Andy
THERE HAS NOT been another kitty since Samantha, though her rescuer had loved and rescued cats nearly all her life.
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A Great Rescue: Milan and Felix
TWO ADULT CATS who’d lost their people but found their way to the same rescuing household; we build our rescued
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Mother’s and Father’s Day Portrait and Gift Specials
In everyone’s life is at least one special person who shared a love of animals, and in that person’s life
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Commissioned Portraits: A Quartet of Sketches
I had a wonderful little “family of pets” commission last year: a series of four small charcoal/pencil sketches of three
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Spring Morning, 2014
What a coincidence—I did this sketch a year ago today, and guess who is the subject? I’ve been intending to
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April Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “Spring”
Years ago a patron of a gallery in Carnegie where I hung my artwork asked me to paint four images
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Commissioned Portraits: Chief Smithers, and Mr. Peterson
I recently received an email about a commissioned portrait from a name I recognized from years before. Back in 2001
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A Great Rescue and a Commissioned Portrait: Bandit Stole His Daddy’s Heart
SOMETIMES WE DON’T realize until years later that a series of odd circumstances has an intention beyond our control; often
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Animal Sympathy Cards
Each time I send out a single or a set of sympathy cards I remember the cat pictured on the
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