Ellie’s scan turned out perfect. She’s such a pretty girl! I’m including a close up of her face too. The photograph I had to work from was pretty teenie, it was a 3×5 photo but Ellie was only about 2 1/2 inches tall in that photo, I scanned it in at a super high res […]

The horse is finished, I have to complete the foreground grasses and paint the edges of this one. I’ll do that tomorrow.

I turned my webcam on, I’ll be painting for a little while tonight. I went ahead and booked our hotel for our vacation, completely oblivious to the sum of 3+7. Three being the number of days Mark will be home before he reports back daily for 7 more, then we can leave. I booked our […]

Phew it’s taken me a few hours to get this viola scanned and pieced together, but WELL worth it, I must say. Yes I’m bragging again. I don’t do it often, so thank you for tolerating me when I do! I’m “hiding” the detail images, just read on (click “more” beneath the full painting) to […]

Here’s Ellie’s digital pic, I’ll show her off again when I get her scanned!

I’ll start working on Ellie again momentarily, the webcam is on! P.S. In the last 86 hrs, I’ve slept 18. Is that normal? LOL

(This horse will have a name, we’re still in that thinkin’ mode) Here’s the underpainting. I know a few of you own horses, I’d love your feedback on anatomy – this is my first horse painting! I’ll be finishing up Ellie tonight (I hope), I’ll update when I get to that point!

My studio cam is on, I’m going to paint the underpainting for the Horse! C’mon & watch! It should go pretty quickly. 🙂

Merrilyn is my long-time bestest bud Paige’s mom. I met Paige my freshman year of high school, and we’ve been like sisters ever since. Her mom has always been awesome, you know how you tend to adopt your families parents? They adopted me right back so I’ve been part of her family for even longer […]