This is a fun painting of one of my own dogs, Tucker. He always perches himself up high on the sofa so he can see out the front window. I think he looks like a king, so I painted the sofa red.

After finishing up a few dog commissions, I wanted to paint something silly – and a friend at the art  center had just finished a pastel painting of a goldfish, which looked like fun..so she loaned me her reference photo. I changed up his colors a bit, but his google-eyes made me laugh.

This is my most recent commission & memorial painting celebrating Casey and Rosie – mother and daughter Westies. It is my first painting featuring two dogs and unlike most of my other commissions, it also has a bit of a landscape in it. I like how Rosie’s muzzle hair is blowing up from the wind, and Casey’s tongue hanging out is pretty cute.

I’m  moving into a new studio space upstairs at the Ashland Art Center (next to Village Shoes) – Studio 3B, which I am sharing with Laura Lawrence! I will still be painting from my home studio, but will split my time between the two locations. The new space is slowly getting there – it only took me 3 hours to install the track lights in the unbelievably thick ceilings using huge anchor bolts.  Today another artist told me it would have been fine with just the plastic drywall bolts – oh, well – people can probably hang from my track lights and they won’t come down….My inventory is slowly making its way upstairs as well, and  starting next week, I will have regular “art creation” hours at the art center on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons – working on various paintings, of animals of course!  I will also be participating in Ashland’s First Friday events more consistently now that I have a studio at the art center.  If you are in the area, stop in and see me.