Art Friends, Try This!

I have to give my artist friend, Billie Crain credit for this. She found it on another artist friend's blog and I thought it was great! You can put your own artwork in a "gallery" and save the picture to your computer. Click HERE for the link to make your own.

New Shelter Puppy Paintings!

Well, have some new shelter puppy paintings. 50% of the sale price will go to help my animal rescue friends. You can use the link at the right to visit my Etsy shop and get more detailed info. I really enjoy doing these paintings!

2008 Women of Achievement Portraits

Congratulations to the St. Louis 2008 Women of Achievement!

Finally, the portraits for this year are finished and are in the process of being framed! I adore doing these portraits every year even though it does take some energy. I invite you to read more about these amazing women at the Women of Achievement web site. Thank you to Trotter Photo for providing the reference photos for me to work from again this year.

Marigolden-Original Oil ACEO

3.5" X 2.5"--TINY! In fact, you are probably seeing the painting larger than life! Oil on prepared illustration board.

Hello! It's been a crazy busy month. Again this year I am doing 10 portraits for Women of Achievement. It's a lot of work and I need a break now and then. So guess what I did! I am just learning about ACEO's...Art Cards, Editions and Originals which are apparently artist trading cards of sorts which are now being sold to collectors. Evidently these little paintings are to be the exact size of 3.5" X 2.5" or the reverse. Well, sounded like fun as well as an opportunity to take a little break so I did this little piece below. Hope you like it! Oh, and I have just started a new Etsy shop at which you can buy my prints and the ACEO originals since I plan to do lots more of them. Thanks for peeking and have a great day!

New Portrait, New Pastels

Soooooo...I am working more frequently with my new Unison pastels. Love them. Here is a recent portrait using the fantastic little sticks. I might add I love this little girl as well. Daughter of two of my favorite people in the whole world, this is a surprise for the mom. Odds are she won't see this blog so I think I am okay for now. If she sees it, oopsy, hello and call me so I can explain!

Recent Portraits

Well hello! My computer died an untimely death last week and I just received my new screaming computer from Dell. After finally setting it up, I thought I would post a couple of recent paintings. The oval one is cropped in this way because the liner will be oval shaped in the final frame. It is an oil while the other little young man is done in pastel. Both are adorable children of course!

Video of Marshall Faulk Retirement Previously Mentioned

Here is the video. Don't blink or you will miss the painting! You can see it at the very beginning on the right side of the screen and it peeks through a few more times. LOL.

St. Louis Rams Project

Ooooh, I need to post more! It's been VERY busy these past few months! Holiday time is always crazy and this year was no exception. In addition to the usual dozens of portraits, I was fortunate to be asked to do a painting for St. Louis Ram's RB Marshall Faulk to be presented to him at his retirement celebration. Limited edition prints were made of this painting in addition to having it shown on national TV! FUN! Above is the painting along with two shots from the ceremony during which the painting showed on TV. LOL. It barely showed, but hey, better than nothing! Well, hope to post more soon. Happy New Year! You can see the whole retirement ceremony at Youtube by clicking this link:
Marshall Faulk Retirement Ceremony

Pastel Pair

I recently completed the portraits above of two adorable children. I was pleased with the results though that may have more to do with the handsome subjects than with my abilities. I think the final pieces will look great with the framing my client's chose. These are both done in pastel on panel and measure 16 X 20 unframed.

Shelter Puppy 4

Here is Puppy 4 from my shelter puppy series. Each of the 4 puppies are available for sale and a portion of the proceeds will go to help the puppies and find homes for them. They are all oil on panel and measure 12 X 12. Prints will be available soon so even more people can afford to help! More on the way...

With regard to prints, each puppy painting will be available individually OR you can get one print showing the first four which will look like the example below.