The Lenten Portraits
Recently, you may have seen me working on portraits. This is new subject matter for me. I’ve taken a few classes and, as it turns out, I love doing them! In the past, I had struggled with faces and hands, they’re difficult to make recognizable. I have always shied away from portraiture, preferring instead to […]
Home Portraits
I recently had a run on doing pet portraits. After seeing them, the Galloway family contacted me and asked to paint their home. At first I thought they were asking me to PAINT their house, but no, they were asking for a Home Portrait! I had not painted a building before, let alone […]
Pet Portraits
After painting this portrait for a dear friend, I’ve had requests coming in asking me to do portraits of other pets. In the interest of honesty, I’m not really a ‘pets’ person. I do love animals, I just don’t want to live with them, or be responsible for the life of another creature. Ginger was […]
Featured Works
These finches in Colored Pencil are still available for purchase and would make a gorgeous Spring collection! The Zebra and the Cordon Bleu are currently unframed and at 11×14 they sell for $300. The Spice and the Saffron are both 9.25×12.5 framed to 21.75×25.25. Shown in a hand-applied gold leaf frame, surrounded by hand-wrapped linen […]
Featured Works
Ombre Flamingo Orange Dahlia Have you seen these? Two of my favorite colored pencil pieces I’ve done. They’re bright and tropical. I think these two pieces really piqued my interest in colored drawing and watercolor painting. Before these, I was a graphite artist who dabbled in ceramics. These […]
Build a Website
“Build a website!”, they said. “It’s so easy, a baby could do it!”, they said. OK, I said that, and now I know I was wrong. And apparently, since I am not, in fact, an actual baby, it was (and is) quite a bit tougher than ‘they’ said. I’d like to throat-punch “they’ right now, […]