Okay -- This is a leap for me. Writing about me and my art! What I love to do most is paint. Dogs, cats, people -- all of the above. My present passion is painting pet portraits. Predominantly dogs. Being an animal lover -- it's a wonderful way to combine two loves - animals and painting. We presently have one dog, two cats and a horse. Cody, our mixed Golden & ?? is our pup. We call him our "grand-dog" since our daughter, Sam, brought him home 6 years ago asking us to just keep him for a few weeks. We just recently lost our German Shepherd, Ruby, in December. That's been difficult -- for all of the humans and Cody. More about the other critters in upcoming posts.
How did I get to the place of painting pet portraits? Well first my daughter Katie moved to Colorado - 1500 miles away from me! :( I was working on a portrait of a little girl at the time and incredibly frustrated with it. I decided I needed to do some "fun" painting and thought it would be fun to paint our pups to send Katie to remind her of home. I had a blast! And people loved them! So that's how this adventure started. More soon...
This is that first painting that I did of Ruby for my daughter. This one is actually in acrylics. I now work predominantly in oils.
