A Mob of Ornaments

This is only HALF of a holiday order.  

My client was so smart!  She got gifts for all of her pet-owning friends!  

Order early and order smart, the holidays sneak up on you..

$45 each from your own photo.

Double Dane Diamonds

Puppies get big fast!  Especially big breeds.  This is one of a pair for my vet.

6" square for $125 for holiday giving!

A New Black Diamond

This year I am doing the bigger diamonds!  6x6" watercolor on wrapped canvas.

This put and sibling are brand new to fill he room left by their older predecessor.

Street Demo

I am back in action.... the season is coming so I am trying to catch up.   This was an anonymous dog that I painted on my first Mesa Second Friday art fair, in downtown of my new home. 

And the season of gifting is coming.... time to order up.   

Watercolor 10x8"

Short Schnauzers!

I recently did a page for the Schnauzer Shorts magazine for Miniature Schnauzer fanciers.
This was the published piece

Pup and a Sphynx

I finished a memorial of one of her other Sphynx cats and put this together of another who was recently lost and the best friend who misses their friend...

Sphynx Cat

I will explain again that I started this blog sitting in a dog park for a year!  I was not able to find a cat park so I have fewer kitty pieces.  This recent portrait was a commission.

New Project... and a Wolf!

Question is: do we allow wolves in a Dog Blog?  YEP!  I am in a workshop so I can make my subjects a bit more interesting and yesterday this lovely waterfall needs a wolf.  I featured this and a landscape on my Petrified AiR blog too.

Maggie Mae

Took longer than it should, but this is the dog owned by two of the most generous people on earth, my cousin and his wife!  You know this is the dog for them!

More dogs to come but NEWS!!

Yes, I deserve a poster that says I have been bad at posting my commissions as they come...

BUT I have a new adventure coming up and want to announce my first posting in the blog.

I will be Artist in Residence at the Petrified Forest National Park in May 2017.  Because it is still a month and a half out, I will give a few updated until I hit the road, but hope you will follow along with my new adventure!

My future home....

Take a look and follow my postings:

https://petrifiedair.blogspot.com/

Two of Sophie

I have done a number of portraits of her mini-schnauzers, and I guess I should know to be heartbroken when I hear from her.  Just days earlier she lost her silver mini, Sophie.  After working with her photos and giving her ideas she felt it took two pieces to capture her personality.  

This is a 10x10" watercolor on wrapped canvas.

And to catch that happy smile, a small 7x5" miniature watercolor.   

Tiny Gift for a Favor

My boyfriend was the recipient of some VERY needed generosity.  With no real way to pay back, I begged him for a photo of their dog, but I got terrible blurry digital phone pix.  

However, it is the feeling and sense of the pet that seemed to win the day.

His report was HUGE gratitude and their daughter hung it in her dorm room... misses the family pet.

TWO GOOD DEEDS!  A great day!

Diesel Memorial

My amazing vet lost Diesel.  He is so famous.  His portrait won a prize and then it graced the cover of the Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association last year and was featured in a group portrait of her gang of well loved pups.  I made two small diamond dogs for her to keep near at home and at the office.

Lucy, a gift

I was so happy to do a gift portrait.  This little piece was of a great dog who was a real survivor.  The owner wanted to treat her husband, who has everything, with a painting of their most important family member.  After much illness this little beauty was a dear creature and lovely model

Twister, Radar and Doppler

An early Christmas gift was finished before my trip to Denver in October, these three mini's MUST be a handful but are such total sweeties!

Pee Wee - Memorial

I made this piece for a very very very old personal friend who reconnected via facebook, for a grieving family member.  

Zoe a Really Great Dane

A memorial of a very noble dog.  

Zoe and Andy

A picture to remember them together!  When Zoe, the Dane passed, her buddy and companion is lost.  The owner wanted something to remember them together;

Ocho - A Memorial

Return clients are always great... unless they are in tears and mourning the loss of another pet.  This was delivered in tears... as we usually do. 

As hard as it is, I really appreciate it when people contact me while in their early grief.  I KNOW this  helps.  I also get great hugs when I deliver it.  

Hospice of the Valley Donation

I painted Lin Sue Cooney, a local television celebrity for a portrait show in 2015.  The piece featured her beautiful Standard Poodle, Max.  

This lead me to her and her new job as spokeswoman for Arizona's Hospice of the Valley and my portrait donation of the Labra-doodle pup that was auctioned at their big event!  SUCH A CUTIE!!!