Commissioned Portraits: Starting Over, Early Lessons in Working With Photos
“These three were littermates, and were rarely seen far from each other. My customer had commissioned it as a gift
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Marketplace: “Window Kitty, Snowy Night” Seasonal Card
Kitty is waiting in the window for you to return home, snow is falling outside but kitty is safe and
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Commissioned Portraits: Mulder, Scully and Casey
We all know what TV show these three were named for! Popular back in 2000 when I painted this portrait.
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The Artist’s Life: Influenced by Steinlen
Happy Birthday, Théophile Steinlein, painter, illustrator and Art Nouveau printmaker who helped set the standard for poster design and has
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Marketplace: These Designs on Fabric Things
Seeing text-weight and cover-weight art papers for scrapbooking and creative crafts I decided to give it a try and create
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November Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: The Dishtowel Drawer
November starts the months of holiday cooking so I wanted to feature a kitcheny scene, and a fun marker sketch
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Happy Meowloween from the Four Housecats of the Apocalypse!
Happy Meow-lo-ween from The Four Housecats of the Apocalypse and from their mama Mimi! And Basil and Bella and Hamlet
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Featured Artwork: Don’t Wake Me Up
Years ago the owner of the veterinary hospital I used suggested he’d like to have customized sympathy cards. The project
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October Featured Artwork and Desktop Calendar: “Studio Window, Autumn”
I featured this painting as my desktop calendar back in 2015. Most of the leaf color in it is from
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Daily Sketch (sort of): Only Good Luck!
Full moon, black cats and Friday the 13th all come together for good luck! I decided to make a little
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