A gift of a large digital landscape made The Missus’ aunt a happy lady!
The Siren Call of Watercolors
My advice for watercolor artists: seek out others who share your passion and be educated and inspired.
I Love Happy Dog Portraits
There’s nothing better than painting a happy dog! I love doing portrait commissions of smiling pooches. From my perspective, as the artist doing the painting, portraying a happy dog makes the portrait come alive. It adds a great real life quality to the dog, and makes it impossible to dismiss. There’s nothing wrong with a serious dog, and I enjoy painting those portraits as well. But working on a happy, smiling dog portrait is a …
Painting Dog Portraits at a Craft Fair
What’s so interesting about dog painting demos at craft fairs? You never know what’s going to happen next.
New Portraits Added to Samples Page
My portrait samples page has grown a bit with 23 new entries.
Rumors of My Demise…
Yeah, I’m still alive.
Scott Adams and Pascal’s Wager
Scott Adams died today (or yesterday) after a long illness. For the last ten years or more, Scott was a big deal on the internet. He hosted daily “Coffee With Scott Adams” video blogs (do we still call them that, or do we go with vlogs?). He predicted Trump’s win in 2016, when everybody was sure the Wicked Witch of Arkansas was going to take it. Later, he aired some contrary views on race relations …
Best Buddies – a Pet Portrait Video
Nothing shakes away the winter blues (for me anyway) better than a pleasant pet portrait video set to a happy jazzy tune. I think you’ll feel the same after watching. In under four minutes you’ll see these two best buddies take shape before your eyes! This is a video of me painting in Rebelle Pro 8 a pet portrait of my dear Hudson (who passed last June) and his good buddy Frank (who is still …
Dogonomics: Bartering With A Bernese Mountain Dog
For your reading pleasure, here is my latest bartering experience with a Bernese Mountain Dog. On our morning walk in the woods, I discover the big Berner has a freshly decapitated deer’s head. I don’t know where he found the head. It could be a coyote or cougar kill; it may have been from a bow hunter. I don’t care. These woods are full of deer carcasses. Drought. Bluetongue (EHD). Death. The deer population has …
Sleepy Dog Portrait
Here’s the story of Otter, a last minute portrait order in 2023 and how he’s really not sad, just sleepy.