Commissioned Portrait: Sky
I really enjoyed painting all that fur. I didn’t know too much about Australian Shepherds at the time—to me, Sky
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Featured Artwork: Blending, Daily Sketch, 2013
Now and then I like to feature a few of my favorite daily sketches as my Featured Artwork post, both
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Featured Artwork: The Magic of a “Snowy Morning”
Bella did it again this past snowy morning, even though the tree is now gone. Not only was it snowing
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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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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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Commissioned Portraits: Star and Pepe, and Their House, in Autumn
This couple had decided they wanted two pieces of artwork done at the same time so they could hang them
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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 Reprise: Stanley With Geraniums, 2013
“Stanley With Geraniums” was not a daily sketch but was a new piece of artwork I’d created in 2013 in
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Mother and Daughter, Sun and Shadow, 2012
“Mother and Daughter, Sun and Shadow” is one of my daily sketches from when I was still experimenting with my
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Daily Sketch Reprise: Listening to Granados, de Falla and Rodrigo, 2014
If you don’t know your Spanish classical guitar composers, now is your chance. I was listening to them while I
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