In an effort to dispel any untruths out there about my obsession with squirrels, I’ve rummaged through hundreds (cough) of photographs just to prove that they are, indeed, cute as hell and I have a justifyable urge to capture them from every angle.

Now I’m faced with an even bigger dilemma – which one to put on a shirt? If you can stand the cuteness, go on and pick your favorite from the seven squirrels I’ve chosen. I am, seriously, going to design a shirt. I can’t disappoint Mr. Dell dude, now can I?

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I’ve finally got all of my painting scans pieced together and uploaded to my portfolio, so I thought I’d give you a quick rundown of what is on display with more quality images than the initial window display photo in my “Now on Exhibit” post.

I posted the Great Blue Heron scan here in my blog because the image in my portfolio is really pretty small.

Here are all the thumbs (linked to their painting details in my portfolio):

Great Blue Heron

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Monochromatic Rainbow Silly Kids

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“Eye Ate It” Series
View these paintings in my portfolio
Buy “Eye Ate It” paintings in my shop

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Kiki the Calico Cat

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All paintings © 2007 Leanne Wildermuth, All rights reserved.

All of these oroginal oil paintings are available for purchase, feel free to contact me if you’re interested in purchasing any of them.

Great Blue Heron
18? x 36? Oil Painting
1-1/2″ Profile Gallery Wrapped Canvas
© 2007 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved
(view portfolio for availability)

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I was just telling Katie’s mom when she picked up her baby girl’s portrait last month how I have the best clients, ever. It’s not just that they appreciate what I do and how I do it, but that they have the patience of Job and understanding when it comes to my creative bursts.

And then, I receive a phone call from Titto’s mom. His portrait arrived, and she’s a very happy bird portrait owner. She mentioned sending me photos and I’ll also be painting Titto’s portrait again, and tears welled up in my eyes, because I’m a big mushy gushy head. I did not expect what landed on my doorstep yesterday. Not even a little.

{{{huge hugs to Tittto’s mom & family}}}Photos of Titto in his full feathered glory, a wooden palette (I’ve been eyeballing these for months!) some really nice brushes, a tin of Coconut Patties (oh. my. YUM.), the most sweet smelling rose pink peppercorn Caldrea candle, and a hefty amount of Perlier honey and glycerin hand cream. Oh! And also! A blank 5×7 canvas panel for Titto’s next portrait! I feel so spoiled, really. (I love to be spoiled.) This is just so – wow. How sweet is this? I have received some precious, sentimental gifts from my clients before, and each time I am just so grateful that people can be so ding dang kind and giving.

It’s nice to feel special. {{{Group hug}}}
Seriously, the best clients ever. Titto looks incredible both framed and unframed.

If you’d like to “walk around”, click the pic for the (not narrated) video, walking up to the display and all that fun stuff you would get to do if you were HERE. (Update: I converted the thing to a windows media file and it’s much smaller and faster loading, sorry about that humongo file!) I’ll get back over there when the tags go up, in the evening, when there isn’t a funky glare from the street.

These are all available for purchase, so if you’re interested in any of them you can contact me for pricing and I can give you the number to call MidCoast Fine Arts to purchase through the gallery.

I did it! I was up until the wee hours of the morning (11pm is late for me, c’mon.) and I think I need to buy stock in aspercreme or something, but he’s done. What a magnificent bird Laura captured, I’m so excited to have her blessing to create this gorgeous 18×36 portrait from one of her amazing photographs. (I can’t find the link to it – Laura – help!)

This is the final piece that will be displayed with my collection. I’ve got a ton of paperwork, scanning etc. to do (and I’m waiting for this guy to dry) so I’ll check back with you with photos of everything on display and a YouTube Vid once they’re all hung. Keep in mind, this is a “window exhibit”, meaning I have a 16″ wide by 5″ high glass enclosed window area where they’ll be exhibited for 2 months to about 30,000 people who walk through this particular area. If I had more pieces in my collection, I’d have a regular gallery show, but since my paintings are never in my posession for very long (yay!), I couldn’t hog up a whole gallery with one wall worth of work. Still, it’s a great thing to have the exposure on a local level.

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Here’s a sampling – the spacing and stuff is all wrong, but it will look something like this on exhibit. The whole thing will display at about 24″ x 24″.

Here you go, the last set to complete a 16 set series of “Eye Ate It” paintings that will be presented as part of my exhibition that begins – WEDNESDAY. Yes. Wednesday. I have 2 days to complete my biggest, largest most complicated painting for the show now.

These should be easy guesses, and now I’m starving – because my kids ate all my painting subjects. Dangit. I swear, as soon as I had the painting finished, they snagged it and ran. In fact, Chickey is standing right in front of me right now saying “Are you done painting the Eye Ate It’s?” and I said “yeeeessss” and she said “Can I go get the rest of the candy now?” and of course, my reply was “yeeeessssss”.

Grumble, grumble, grumble
(that’s my tummy)

One more set to go in my “Eye Ate It” series to finish – did you guess on the last set? This one may be easier – although that one to the right may stump a few people since the image isn’t a very big one.

(Yes I’ll put them all together when I’m finished for you to eat up, you know, that’s a lot of Eye Candy. Save your appetite eyepetite. :winking:)

Happy guessing!

P.S. Got ice? We do! On a normal day, that bush is not so vertically challenged. I think it may split in half. Can’t go out, you might get pelted by the ice cube sized stuff breaking off the trees. One more – look at our coated power lines. (Hoping they don’t snap!)