This is Lucy, a custom cat portrait I’ll be working on over the next week or so. She’ll be done on a 10×10 gallerywrap canvas in oil, and as you can see from my reference photo she is an absolutely stunning Tortie kitty. Her mom picked out the most beautiful shade of green (matching her […]

What a display. We’ve gone to this spot for around 6 years now I think, and it gets better and better every year. I promised that I would do my best with these photos, and out of 100+ pics, these are my postworthy shots. The grand finale can be detected by it’s sheer brightness, explosion […]

I’ve been painting today, since the darn rain hasn’t let us do anything else. Ah I’m really not complaining about the rain, we really needed it, although better timing would have been just swell! Here you go, finally, another work in progress on this piece. I do have a title in mind but it involves […]

I hope you all have a wonderful (patriotic) and sparkly day today! We missed our family fireworks last year since Mark was away, so this year we’ll be going back to our “usual” spot. We’ll be eating funnel cakes, drinking freshly sqwished and overly-sweetened lemonade, and (hopefully) not getting rained on. I’ll see what I […]