Featured Artwork and December Desktop Calendar: Black Cats Dreaming in Color
The way the frilly colorful lines worked out in this sketch always reminded me of both confetti and some Christmas
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cat portrait
Featured Artwork and November Desktop Calendar: Waiting for Mom
This was the painting I looked at and said to myself, “I think I can really do this.” I’m going
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February 2020 Personal Creative Challenge, Day 13: Update on Amy’s Portrait
I’m counting all creative things I do into my creative challenge, especially artwork. Time spent on a portrait works into
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February 2020 Personal Creative Challenge, Day 9: Update on Amy’s Portrait
I’m counting all creative things I do into my creative challenge, especially artwork. Time spent on a portrait works into
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Little Fawn, Just Before, 1988
I lost my “yittle Fawn” 20 years ago this past week, and I’m remembering her with this special moment in
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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: 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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Commissioned Portrait: My First Commissioned Portrait
Meet Passion, Honor, Temperance, Joey and Spot, the feline family with the distinction of being the first of my commissioned
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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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