Jaz and Rosebud

Duet

oils and acrylics on canvas, 10.5" x 9"

Jaz and Rosie are Standard Poodles.  They're graceful and gentle giants.  Their owners love plants and have a magnificent garden.  I tried to capture some of that.

Liz and Burt

Liz and Burt form the Earth

oils and acrylics on board,  8" x 10.5"

Liz and Burt were Portuguese Water dogs, and their owners are clay artists.  They told me about taking the dogs to Colorado; and how they thought they had lost Burt, and I quote, "took off across the mountain chasing elk. That night he was spooked by coyotes outside the cabin talking to him."

Spot

Wiley Spot

oils and acrylics on board,  5" x 7"

Spot has eaten every piece of furniture in his owner's house, so I painted him thinking of "his first chair".

Ziggy

Ziggy Primavera

oils and acrylics on canvas, 9" x 12"

Ziggy loves loves to be outside, and his owner loves nature and warmth; I tried to capture that by overlaying flowers I took from Botticelli's Primavera  over the the whole "scene".

Hidey

Patterns

linoleum cut print, 20" x 14"

Hidey was my constant studio companion for 19 years.  She died yesterday. I miss her terribly. When I made this print, years ago, I was thinking about nature and it's abstraction; just as I was when I painted Through the looking Glass.

Leany was a good model

 Through The Looking Glass

oils and acrylics on canvas mounted on board,  32" x 38.5"

Leany came to us fully formed at the age of about 7.  He was a tough and awesome cat who actually had a 22 caliber bullet embedded in his lung, 2 millimeters from his heart.  We found that out while x-raying him for something else.  He was my first cat, and opened up a whole world of wonder for me.  This painting was about nature, reality, it's abstraction and simulation (believe it or not). 

Leany 1

Bath (Leany)

oils on canvas, 21" x 26.5"

This was an anniversary gift for my husband, many moons ago.