New Work - Assman, Racehorse & Dog

Here are three more new ones

"Assman" 4x6

"Ready to Run" 4x6

"A Friendly Host" 4x6

New Work - Katie & Racoons

These are two new works, a pet portrait, "Katie" 4x6

...and "Racoons" an ACEO

New Work - Pet Portraits

Here are a bunch more Pet Portraits from the Wet Canvas Swap.

"Cody & Kaylee on a Moose" 4x6

"Emma" 4x6

"Gateway Window Gazing" 2.5x3.5

"KC" 4x6

"Lacey" 4x6

"Maggie" 4x6

"O'Malley the Alley Cat" 2.5x3.5

"Sandy" 4x6

"Sweet Moo" 4x6

New Work - Pet Portrait Swap

 Here's another lot of pet portraits done for the Wet Canvas Pet Portrait Swap. 

"Maisy" 2.4x3.5

"Oscar" 2.5x3.5

"Pepper" 2.5x3.5

"Pirate" 2.5x3.5

"Rose & April" 4x6

 "Peppermint" 2.5x3.6 color pencil

"Armand" 2.5x3.5

"Bob the Fainting Goat" 5x7

New Work - Pet Portrait Swap - "Hank"

"Hank" 2.5x3.5" oil ACEO/ATC

One more little painting made it to  its new home! 

New Work - Portrait Swap

At this point I have completed ten portraits, but, only a few have made it to thier destinations yet!  Some of these are going global with some going to Spain, England, Austrailia, Belgium, and South Africa...so thier may be a long wait on some of these!  Here are the confirmed arrivals;

"Girls At Play" oil 2.5x3.5

"Leo - Son of King" oil 2.5x3.5

Such a gorgeous gypsy horse!

"Belle"  2.5x3.5 oil

I love a happy face!

"Sandy" 4x6 oil

Such an elegant beauty, I just had to paint her!

Most of these portraits will be ACEO/ATC sized, but, I will have a few 4x6 as well.   Be sure to check out the other artists work here;

Gallery of Swap Art

Pet Portrait Swap!

I joined in on the Wet Canvas Pet Portrait Swap for the practice in painting pet portraits, and, just because it sounded like fun! The swap is limited to 30 artists participants and each member sets up a gallery of thier own pet photographs for the other members to work from.  Each member commits to painting at least one portrait for each of the participants and sending it to them.  In return, each member should receive at least one painting from each member...paint 30/receive 30.   It is a lot, but so far has been well worth it in experience gained, comraderie, and good art, seen  and received!  I will list my contributions here as 'New Work' as they are received by their recipients...don't want to spoil thier surprise by listing them too soon, so, I must wait until I hear back that their art has arrived.  You can view the completed art here:

Final Artwork

This project will continue for several  months, so, check back often to see the new work that has been added! 

On The Easel (or under it, or behind it, even nowhere near it!)

I really have a lot of work in the works, lol! Sometimes I will start something, but then, set it aside to start on something else that just seems more important at the moment. Most of these I will finish at some time, although one or two could end up completely abandoned...or worse still...end up as a quickie palette to mix paint on and ruined forever with big globs of dried paint all over them! Here's the latest assortment, some actually getting some work done on them...

This centaur aceo is suffering for lack of inspiration at the moment...it may become a repository for dried paint glob..or, it might suddenly get a streak of amazing inspiration to save it!

This is Norman my sister/BILs deceased pet...must get back to this one!

I like how this one started, really will finish it sometime!

I like this one  too, but, it has been languishing for many months now...hmmm.  must do something about this!

Foxy Fae one of our cats...and a real struggle!  Those eyes are still lopsided! Ack!

This appy if from the WetCanvas RIL and I really like him, but, I hate working from photos on the computer but my color printer is permanently out of ink, so.....who knows what will become of him!

These two really are currently on the easle!  Now, I just need to turn this computer off and get back to painting! 

Hot News! Artwork chosen for EBSQ Art of the Day

How 'bout that!  EBSQart.com picked my canine miniature "Howie & Sammi at the Beach" 3"x4" oil painting for thier art of the day!  They are looking forward to summertime...no more snow!  LOL!

New work - Puppyface

This is a portrait of my sister's dog Howie as a pup.  Oil ACEO on multimedia artboard.

This is close to lifesize of 2.5x3.5 inches.  Here are two close-ups

New Work - Braiding Mother's Hair

Finally it is done!   this oil painting is 16x20.   I will be offering a limited edition of 16x20 prints on canvas of this and will list them here and on etsy once they are available.  Here are the final photos with some detail close-ups.  You can click on the photos to see enlargements.