Register for an account on Portraits of Animals and get a free matted print of “Peach Begonias” or choose from several other sketches, paintings or photos of cats and other subjects. Read more about this painting on The Creative Cat: Featured Artwork and May Desktop Calendar: Peach Begonias
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About The Garden Gate For someone who is a gardener and spends a lot of time in her yard–what a special place! If I can’t have it in my yard, at least I can paint it. The arbor sporting ivy, the old rhododendron crowning the entrance and the gate, mysteriously left ajar and leading to […]
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I dropped off submissions to the North Hills Art Center annual Art for Animals exhibit to benefit the Hope Haven Farm Sanctuary, which takes in farm animals and livestock who need to be rescued from negative or inhumane conditions. You’ve seen two of these paintings in the past few months, Big Blue and Nikka’s Jupiter […]
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I download my photos from my DSLR into daily folders named with the date and today I happened to be in the folder for April 6, 2006 and saw the photo that became the reference for this painting. Yes, it’s that magic light as the angle of the sun rises and sunlight reaches way into […]
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I took a photo of saplings along the creek in early spring along the Panhandle Trail. The straight lines of the saplings and varied colors and widths and patterns with the light behind them, and even a bit of the creek, immediately appeared to me as a larger painting, but abstracted. I just wanted to […]
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This painting of three black and white cats began as a commissioned portrait in 1992, but decided I didn’t like the layout of the three cats, stopped, and painted another in pastel. But I kept this one and decided I like it just as much as the one I used. How much I’ve learned in […]
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About Forest Bathing A view of the misty spring woods. I’ve always loved this ravine just off the Panhandle Trail for the angle of light that enters it, that deep “V” shape creating colorful highlights and rich shadows and always mossy logs with a little sparkle of water that meanders down the center. And in […]
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Register for an account on Portraits of Animals and get a free matted print of “Nikka’s Jupiter Ball” or choose from several other sketches, paintings or photos of cats and other subjects—plus a discount on the original and prints and greeting cards until March 31, 2023 Read more on The Creative Cat: Featured Artwork and […]
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That deeply angled winter sunlight reaches farther into the windows than summer sunlight, into the corner with the fruit bowl. I’ve been looking at the late afternoon sun hitting this vintage flow blue ceramic bowl where I keep my apples and enjoying the shapes of the apples, the reflections on the bowl with its uneven […]
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Above is the first of three portraits I have of sweet Penny, and it’s the one I still have in my studio, but all from about a decade ago. I realized I’ve never written about this/these portraits, so here we are. I’ve framed the original of this portrait to sell as the original and also […]
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TNR project to remove stray and feral cats from an abandoned building to be demolished.
Join us at Dogapalooza in Carnegie Park, Sunday, June 4, 10 to 2
I’ll See You at the HCMT/Pittsburgh C.A.T. Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser May 21
Featured Artwork and May Desktop Calendar: Peach Begonias
May Nature Desktop Calendar: The Garden Gate
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden Spring Artisan Market April 30, 2023
TNR project to remove stray and feral cats from an abandoned building to be demolished.
Join us at Dogapalooza in Carnegie Park, Sunday, June 4, 10 to 2I’ll See You at the HCMT/Pittsburgh C.A.T. Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser May 21Featured Artwork and May Desktop Calendar: Peach BegoniasMay Nature Desktop Calendar: The Garden GatePittsburgh Botanic Garden Spring Artisan Market April 30, 2023
