Daily Sketch Reprise: “Here in the Shadows”, 2013
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
A Great Rescue and Commissioned Portrait, and a Little Bit of Otherworldly Magic: I’ll Be Seeing You
CAN THE SUBJECT of a painting communicate through his image? One of the dearest stories from any of my portraits
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Daily Sketch Reprise: The Cat Mountains
Three cats asleep, just like mountains in the dark. This was purely a visual inspiration, looking at Mimi and Bean
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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: Bandit
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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March Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: Morning Shift Studio
March is a month of change so the choice of art for this month is all over the place. This
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Commissioned Portrait: Tommy
Tommy was another portrait from 2016, and he and his family were very special customers. I’ve known his person, Melanie
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Featured Artwork: “Winter Window”
Kelly pauses in the stark pastel light of a winter afternoon through the big north window in my studio, absolutely
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Commissioned Portrait: Sadie, Marley, Cici and Ashes
I’ve been working on this “family portrait” for a while, moving the cats around and resizing it and I think
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Early Evening
I caught Mewsette having a meditative moment as the sun came around to the bedroom window, just catching her whiskers
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