Our squirrels were just hamming it up yesterday, this one looks like he’s doing a Sammy Davis Jr. imitation doesn’t he?

We don’t have any plans for today, how about you? I’ve already toned the paper for my next portrait, which is going to be a chalk/pastel painting (they’re actually Yarka crayons, although I have no idea why they’ve called them crayons), I’ll post a work in progress on that when I have my subjects sketched.

The Tater background isn’t dry enough for me to work on yet today, so I’ll be working on my custom blog artwork piece. That one has progressed from a pencil sketch to a clean line drawing and is now becoming a very cool and vivid graphic illustration. It’ll be neat to see it go live within the new blog design for this client! Once my main gallery layout is revised (again), I’ll add a gallery specifically for screen shots of where my E.Webscapes client work is located. That will be a fun addition to my portfolio I think!

It’s a TATER COUPLE!

This is another commission I’ve begun. What? What is that you say? NOT a pet portrait? What is going on?! Well. It’s all about potatoes, don’t you know. Even my pet portraits start out as spuds. Really. No, not really.

All I can say is that you know you have the funnest (I made that up) job in the planet when you get to paint Taterheads.

I love my life, I love my paint, and I love my Wacom tablet. Amen. Oh, yea, and my husband and kids, too. Amen.

We’ve been hearing baby chirps coming from one of our sparrow nests, and they’re finally big enough to peek their heads up! Awww, aren’t they sweet lil babies?!

The weather here is not being very nice this weekend, it’s chilly and windy, and today it’s going to rain. Bah. It’s supposed to get up into the 80’s by the end of the week, I am so looking forward to that! I’d much rather sweat than freeze. I’m like a puppy, my fingers, toes and nose all freeze when it’s chilly out. Woof.

I’m gonna be busy today, working on my next painting, finishing up my custom-blog-artwork order, and prepping my next portrait. I hope you guys are having better weather than I am!

Custom Mouse Portrait
8 x 10 Oil Painting
Gallerywrap Canvas
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved

Click “read more” for detail shot!

I finished up Taba’s Mousie today, too! I’m feeling so productive, I even prevented a senseless murder tonight – grackle vs. sparrow. I won. Sparrow lives at least a little while longer. Man those grackles are aggressive. 🙁

I’ll scan Mousie tomorrow sometime and show ya again. Cause I like to repeat myself. A lot.

😆

Custom Cat Portrait : Sissy
12 x 16 Oil Painting
Gallerywrap Canvas
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved

Click “read more” for detail shot!

I’m waiting on final approval on her, but here she is. I’ll post the final scan & details after the paint dries!

Caitibug spent over an hour reading my blog lastnight on daddy’s laptop. She was giggling and kept reading my entries back to me and telling me how funny I am. Well hey, at least I can amuse an 8 year old! She would like to see more pictures of herself on my blog. I had planned on posting this one today anyway, so now when she gets home from school and checks in on me she’ll be a happy little camper. So everyone say “hey” to Caitibug! I’m sure I’ll have some great pics of her over the summer since she’s a little fish. You’ll know her by her goggles and snorkle.

Update: I remembered this pic, so I scanned it in, look at how much she’s grown!! Awwww.

I’ll be finishing up Sissy’s portrait this morning, then working on Taba’s mouse, and sketching out my first order for E.Webscapes! So it’ll be another busy day here!

I’ve been painting all day today, and here’s Sissy’s progress. She’s almost complete! I’m going to try to add her final coat tonight, if not tomorrow morning.