Completed: June 4, 2011
Soundtrack: Amanda Richards
Beverage: Starbucks Iced Mocha

Filed under: Art, Dogs, Golden Retriever, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Watercolor on June 6th, 2011 | No Comments »

This month, you can see my work in Grand Vines, a great wine shop in Salem, Oregon (my home city.)
Last night was First Wednesday downtown and theme was “Dog’s Nite Out”. The place was packed. The rest of my family was at a Little League game in the gray drizzle, but I was happy as [...]

Filed under: 1, Art, Dogs, Pet Portraits, Portraits, Salem, Shows, Watercolor on June 2nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »

If you read The Pioneer Woman, you’ll probably recognize these next portraits.

Like millions of other people, I read Ree’s blog every day. There’s always something that interests me on a personal level…but that’s why we choose to read the blogs we do, right? Her post last week about her kids saddling and unsaddling the [...]

Filed under: Art, Celebrities, Frequent Flyers, Mad Mom, Painting on Yupo, Pioneer Woman, Portraits, Watercolor on May 30th, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Despite a headache that’s lasted for a million years, I awoke on Monday with a radically heightened sense of possibility.
And sure enough, good things started happening.
First,  it was announced that my painting, Naughty had been included in the Top 10 finalists for the Mutt Lynch wine label contest. We find out today if I win [...]

Filed under: Art, Celebrities, Dogs, Frequent Flyers, Mutt Lynch, Painting on Yupo, Pet Portraits, Portraits, Random, Watercolor on May 25th, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Remember last year when I went to the MTV Movie Awards celebrity gift lounge? Right. Well, it was sort of a last-minute thing, meaning, I didn’t have a a budget to you know, get there and back and feed myself and transport art and stay at a fancy L.A. hotel and everything. But I really [...]

Filed under: Art, MTV Gift Lounge, Painting on Yupo, Portraits, Procrastination, Watercolor on May 23rd, 2011 | No Comments »