July Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “Here in the Shadows”
June was (supposed to be) sunny, July is usually a little too sunny—and hot. But a shady corner next to
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pastel painting
Commissioned Portrait: General Keisha
My current portrait is a dilute calico named Keisha, or more properly “General” Keisha, who managed a large household of
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Commissioned Portrait: Beloved Mollie, and Her Rescue Story
Molly has a really sweet expression, splashes all over her nose and chin, an orange eyebrow and a little black
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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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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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