First, my apologies to anyone who tried to view my portfolio site this morning. It’s broke! While I can’t confirm, I can only suspect that it was a result of all the Pioneer Women visiting. What a wonderful “problem” to have!
In the meantime, feel free to browse around this blog and read all about my [...]

Filed under: Not painting, On the web on January 31st, 2010 | 9 Comments »

My niece is diminutive. Miniature. Slight.
And feisty.
So I wasn’t too surprised when I heard her response to this portrait I just finished. My sister held the phone up so I could hear her squeals of delight when the image popped up in email. But she didn’t squeal. In fact, she hated it.
You see, she has [...]

Filed under: Art, Painting on Yupo, Portraits, Watercolor on January 30th, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Two great things happened today. I’ve been dying to post about it since this morning, but I was too busy answering email and hitting ‘refresh’ on my blog stat counter.
Thing the first: My portrait of Neil Gaiman’s dog Cabal arrived in Minnesota!
Thing the second: my painting of Charlie was on The Pioneer Woman today!
You know [...]

Filed under: Art, Dogs, On the web, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Watercolor on January 29th, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Since I painted my sister’s portrait, I am following up with this one of my nephew for his birthday. I mean, what nine-year-old would want his auntie to buy him remote control car when he could have a hand-painted watercolor portrait instead of himself?
Well, this kid might.
He and my son are close in age and [...]

Filed under: Art, Painting on Yupo, Portraits, Watercolor on January 28th, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday, for about five seconds, so fast you’d miss it if you blinked, I was on the Rachael Ray Show.
It came about after I sent a proposal into the show after the success of Julia & Julia (my new favorite movie), suggesting that someone (me) could cook through a Rachael Ray cookbook for a year [...]

Filed under: Cooking, Mad Mom, Not painting, Random on January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »