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Hi Folks,
It’s been quiet on the painting front since returning home from my residency, but I’ve been busy in other areas of life. Honest.
Go visit multicraftual.wordpress.com if you are interested in crafting and want to watch my friend Liby and I in a new video podcast. We yammer on about crafting, we sing songs and put knitted garments on her cat pancake etc. Pancake is a star. The podcast is worth watching just for his expressions.
Crafting podcasts (and there are many: dramatic knits, stockinette zombies, 90% Knitting, the knit girllls, whatcha swatchin, yarnivore, craftstash, to name just a few) are most often watched while engaged in knitting or crocheting yourself. As I recently explained to my mother, it is not meant to be captivating in the same way a tv show or movie is… rather, it is like sitting down with friends to knit and gab together. That is the best I can explain it.
In other news, the Brit (husband) and I are gearing up for a move into a new home July 1st. Same town. Portales. It means “porches” in Spanish. We like it.
The move means less time in the future with the neighborhood cat Butters. Since I got back from residency, Butters has been visiting me every morning for pats and scritches. His meow is a scratchy pathetic sound like something from a dying animal. But he is nevertheless quite talkative and affectionate. I will miss him (and frequently walk through our old neighborhood just to visit him).
Butters, mi amigo
on the porch
I’m entering some paintings and photos in the county fair tomorrow. I don’t think I would have thought to enter except I was told they have a new category this year for professional artists and well, can you really resist participating in a fair? Animals of all sizes, all the best (worst-for-your-heart) food, plenty of lit-up rides to make you want to vomit… and then all the pies and cakes and crafts to oogle. I’m having a flash-back of the fairs I attended each year growing up. The only difference now is that I have to worry about a tooth filling or crown coming out in one of those candy apples…
Here’s one of the photos I’m entering. I took it of my friend’s aunt’s cat. Gotta love cats with fangs! I’m not making fun… too much. I think she’s gorgeous, fangs and all.
And a side-note: there’s an event in the fair called a “pig chase” in which participants can enter in these age categories: pre-school, 5 year olds, 6 year olds, 7 year olds or 8 year olds. I am most excited to attend, for I imagine I get to watch pre-schoolers chase a pig? Or maybe the pig chases the pre-schoolers? I simply can’t wait.
Vampire Cat, photograph
I haven’t posted in a while but there are plenty of new works (and some old ones too) posted on my website! Go check it out. I’ve added some new galleries as well as some new works to some of the existing galleries.
Below is a snapshot of my new “Commissions” gallery on my website.
I do many pet portraits, house and property portraits and any other sentimental still life or landscapes you can think of. The majority of the commissions I do are for friends or family of the purchaser. They make great thoughtful gifts.
Commissions, various media
Here is my first Illustration using the glory of CS2, just as I promised you in my recent post: “A Little Animal Love“. Yep, I’m a bit behind the times, but will catch up soon enough.
Sun Patch
I thought it might be fun to show my messy palette in relation to the painting I produced from it. You can find all of the colours (in some form or another) from the painting smushed somewhere on the palette.
I was very happy while painting this adorable fur-person. I probably don’t need to mention that she has a very strong relationship with all dairy products. You should see her when someone opens a container of yoghourt!
photograph of my palette
Eye on the Prize, oil on canvas, 10 x 12"
Right from the sketchbook today: this is a mock-up sketch for an illustration of another little story I’m working on. It may soon be digitized so stay tuned – this could be fun!
Page 3 sketch, graphite and pencil crayon on paper, 4 x 4"
Drawn from a photo by Liby Ball who owns this miraculous cat.
I have had the incredible honour of meeting and hanging out with this lovely feline Coral. She is fantastic.
Coral, watercolour and ink on paper, 6 x 7"
Portraits of adorable Findley, Okie and Box were recently commissioned for a birthday present. They were such a pleasure to draw, I can just imagine walking and cuddling with them!
Findley, watercolour and ink on paper, 4 x 6"
Okie, watercolour and ink on paper, 4 x 6"
Box, watercolour and ink on paper, 4 x 6"
