I’ve also started my pet portrait contest winner’s portrait today! This is a gorgeous setting for a purebred Smooth Fox Terrier. He’s mostly white, but has some beautiful rich browns on his head and a couple of other areas. I used a transparent gold ochre for the background, layering some areas a bit heavier than […]

Here are the two cat portraits I’m working on now. I hope to have these finished by Monday! The kitty on the left is Rocky, and Simba is on the right. I’ve got them sketched out with an angled ground which will probably be woodgrain. In other news, I got some better pics of the […]

This one is for you, Mark. Thank you. I love you. Better pics tomorrow, need some daylight! I’ll list it tomorrow too, unless of course anyone wants to make me an offer on it before it goes up for sale to the public. Stargazer Lily 12×12 – 1 1/2″ Gallerywrap canvas in OILS

Here’s a WIP shot of what I’m working on. 🙂Clickie to see what I’m painting!

There’s one of the two canvases that are JUST about dry enough for me to start two cat commissions! Both canvases look the same at this point, tomorrow I will begin painting the kitties! For today, I have had 2 canvases prepped for a couple of weeks and it’s raining out, so I’m going to […]

Would someone please explain to me the point in spamming products to every e-mail address on the planet, when filters have been so jam packed with keywords that spammers can’t even complete a full normal sentence with correct spelling and punctuation anymore????? What is the point? Look at this! (I’m sure you’ve probably seen it […]

Ain’t she a beauty? These roses are really taking off! Here’s another one, this is one of the “Remember Me” blooms: Gotta add a couple more!!!! Here’s a melon gerber daisy: And a lovely threesome of DEEP and bright orange gerbers!

Okie doke folks, here’s the news! The City of Toronto (Canada) has a big, beautiful waterpark (links to come). It has been up and running for about 10 years now, and they are expanding! Their general contractor searched for a large frog to add to the new section and found one of the frogs I […]

I really didn’t want to get into politics here, but I just noticed something and wanted to share. This weekend, after the news that Regan had passed, I was pretty upset. I still am. When he was President, I was just old enough to be aware of who he was. I remember speeches, I remember […]