Commissioned Portrait: Baldie
Baldie was among my first year’s portraits back in 1992-1993. I met his people at a cat show, the second
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Commissioned Portrait: Franklin, First Draft
Meet Franklin, the subject of my next portrait. He’s an older boy, 15 years to be exact, and a nice
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Commissioned Portrait Trio: Lucy, Ethel and Bubba
Meet Lucy, Ethel and…Bubba! Yes, that’s right. I just finished this trio of portraits of three rescued shelter cats adopted
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Commissioned Portrait Finished: Stained Glass Feline Family
The last step of my latest commissioned portrait—adding the “leading” in the “stained glass window”. When I finished adding
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Commissioned Portrait in Progress: Stained Glass Feline Family
I don’t often get the chance to share a portrait while I’m working on it. Most of my portraits are
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Commissioned Portrait: Scarlett and Melanie
A full-color rendering that covers the entire ground—paper, canvas, etc.—is often what we think of when we envision a “portrait”,
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Commissioned Portraits: How I Actually Put One Together
I’ve discussed plenty of portraits here but for the most part you’ve only seen finished works, and aside from a
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Commissioned Portrait: Baylee
Baylee’s portrait is not so much a portrait of her as it is a record of many happy memories with
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A Great Rescue and a Commissioned Portrait: “Felix”, Big Kitty Love
SOMETIMES PEOPLE START with purebred cats because it’s what they learned when young, or they met a cat—or dog or
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Commissioned Portrait: Mozart
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of painting Mozart’s portrait. This portrait was painted through a portrait certificate given
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