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Well, I’ve managed to neglect my updates for the past several months, but there has actually been a lot going on.  First, I moved into a larger studio space, which has had the unexpected (though not surprising) effect of increasing my productivity.  I liked my old space, but as I produced more paintings, was findingContinue reading “Lots going on!”

After doing a photo shoot with a new dog, it sometimes takes me days of scrutinizing photos, zooming and cropping and trying to reframe images through a new angle.  And sometimes, I know as soon as I take the picture.  I can be out with the subject for an hour and then, the 48th click ofContinue reading “Loki – started?”

 Swiping the fine line of a whisker over a cheek already finished with many oily colors, carefully chosen and blended, instills fear in my heart. If I was working in smaller sizes, no big deal. But whiskers on faces of this size can be six inches or more, and that’s a lot of distance toContinue reading “Addie, finished”

What is it?  Radiolab had a great episode on color… http://www.radiolab.org

I don’t normally paint from photos that have been published, but I had an old postcard from the Somerville Arts Council’s ArtBeat from 1998 that screamed to me.

Clare is an amazingly sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback living in Cambridge.  This is just the basic outline sketch thrown on with charcoal to set the basic lines. Let there be color.