Today’s the beginning of a new season: The season of returning to school; to routines and early bedtimes; to homework (ugh!) and endless streams of notifications, adding to my already jammed mind cluttered by information overload! Last week was really hard. Each day was spent, taking the kids to sporting activities, back-to-school shopping, birthday parties [...]
As an artist, painting dogs and cats with their owners is a love of mine. I also enjoy owners who unravel their framed art to reveal a painted portrait of their beloved companions, like dogs, cats, horses, birds —even rats and guinea pigs. (But not all in the same painting!) The bond between human and [...]
Here’s a sneak peek at another cool little painting I’m working on. This one’s all kinds of fun because I’m getting to use my sparkly pastels!!! I’ve been itching to use them but sparkles are typically not found on pets or their people! Unless, of course it’s a poodle wearing a tutu…never mind. Anyways…then one [...]
I like to paint more than one painting at a time. Now many artists work on one and one alone and they’re “gonna work on this thing until its finished, by golly!” Then as if it’s some kind of reward for finally completing the work they then get to start another. The problem with this [...]
