Featured Artwork: “Mimi in the Formal Garden”, a Special Commission for CWA
I was very honored and excited when Deb Barnes, president of the Cat Writers’ Association, contacted me at the end
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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, 2013
Three cats asleep, just like mountains in the dark. This was purely a visual inspiration, looking at Mimi and Bean
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July Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: Swirling Bath
Well, this wasn’t at all what I’d set out to do, but then I’d set out with kind of a
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Featured Artwork: 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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June Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: White Cat Reflecting
My white cat was endlessly inspiring to me, and I would need two lifetimes to recreate all the images of
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Featured Artwork: Suncatcher, 1989
This sketch was among my four first pastels, painted in 1989. I remember studying the highlights on Allegro’s fur, and
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Milling, 2013
I watched them milling around my legs like koi in a pond, waiting for some action on a day when
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Daily Sketch Reprise: The Sunny Upstairs Window, 2012
Years ago a gallery wouldn’t accept one of my paintings of cats because they “didn’t show cats”. They didn’t mean
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Tonal Nap, 2013
Giuseppe was napping, as usual, outside the door of my studio in a pool of sun on the landing. We’ve
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