Each year at the Holidays, I send all my boarding kennel dogs and kitties Holiday postcards. I do watercolor sketches of the animals on the front. My owners seem to enjoy seeing them. These are the first five I have done this year.

I can't believe it is already time to get ready for the Holidays, seems as if I just did that only it was a year ago.
This is my Holiday card for 2007.I will be putting it on items in my Cafe press shop and possibly in my Ebay store. Contact me for the URLs for both if you are interested.

The local art group I belong to set as the December theme, "barns". Well, I am not good at landscape, they don't seem to be my focus but I figured I had to do something to take to the meeting to show so I decided to paint this one and of course had to add a horse! I struggled mightily with the foreground and had to resort to using a bit of gouache to add the weedy flowers but overall I think it turned out OK. Not my best work but I guess it will do. :)

Well, I have been in a slump for a week or two but did go ahead and paint this conch shell which is the challenge for my online watercolor group for November.
It was a study in color and texture. I think I am pleased with it.

A friend on one of my Yahoo groups just lost this darling doggie at 15 years so I wanted to paint this for her. Somehow the photos of this little dog just spoke to me and I had to paint him.

Finally finished up on this painting. It wasa challenge for my online watercolor group. I was really trying to get the transparency to show on the large flower but didn't quite accomplish that. I think part of the reason is because the paper I was using wasn't the bright white but instead the regular which is kind of creamy in color. I think the white would have allowed me more brightness.

This is an actual stallion that I painted a portrait of and am selling as a donation to help save a number of draft and draft/cross mares that need rescuing from slaughter.
The painting is for sale on Ebay and will be on my website for sale if he doesn't sell there. If you would like to read more about the horses needing rescue, please go to www.theanimalifarm.com.