Now Available - Square Magnets With My "Paintings With Petzazz"

Just a quick post to introduce square magnets featuring my watercolor "Paintings with Petzazz".

My art's been available on a variety of merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, rectangular magnets, etc.) at CafePress, but I hadn't yet found a source for square magnets - a format I wanted for my square paintings.



Visit my Zazzle Shop to see the new magnets.

For originals, fine art prints, earrings & note cards, visit my eBay Store or Etsy Shop

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Here Comes Peter Cottontail . . .

. . . Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail.

I had a little wind-up Peter Cottontail when I was a kid - I think of it every time that song comes to mind. It was metal, shaped like Peter dressed in all his finery and it would play the "Peter Cottontail" music.

But I digress a bit. . .

I've just listed a new ACEO (2.5" x 3.5" format art) on eBay:


Click on the bunny to see the listing.

This is a color pencil drawing with a watercolor underpainting. I had a heck of a time getting the colors right on this image - I'm still not completely happy with it, but it's pretty close to the original. I always use my scanner to capture my art but this time it just wouldn't grab all the detail and subtle colors, so I had to resort to the camera.

The model is Snoopy, a friend's rabbit. This friend, Dianne Van de Carr, is a talented artist and animal lover. She works in fused glass - check out her website! Dianne has become a rabbit owner/rescuer by default - her first rabbit, Wasabi, was found in the street, missing most of his front feet. The damage had healed and no one knows what happened or why he was roaming the street. But he was a wonderful little guy who lived happily with Dianne and her family for many years. Now she has Snoopy, Chance & Ellie - all three are rescues. To find out more about one of Dianne's favorite rabbit rescues, visit F.U.R (Friends of Unwanted Rabbits).

The Art for Critters (A4C) group to which I belong came up with a promotion for March to benefit The Bunny Bunch (another rabbit rescue organization). A4C is encouraging folks to buy rabbit art, not rabbits during the Easter season. Buying a bunny for Easter is all too often an impulse purchase that results in far too many homeless bunnies! A4C artists are donating a portion from the sales of a variety of bunny art to help The Bunny Bunch's education and adoption efforts.

Click the image to see all the bunny-helping eBay auctions.

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A Basket of Pepper

And this is the last portrait of my latest three - just completed yesterday.
Pepper (a border collie/Aussie shepherd mix) is now a lovely grown lady, around 2 or 3 years old, I think. Her owner provided this screamingly adorable photo of puppy Pepper sitting in a woven basket.

I decided to use graphite pencil for this portrait, which measures 5" x 7"



and this is the reference photo, both in color and greyscale

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Annie the Border Collie

My next new portrait is of Annie, a playful border collie.
This portrait is watercolor on Yupo, 10" x 7"


Here's the reference photo I took:



Sadly, Annie is no longer with us - she was a sweet and beloved companion of "Aunt Cynthia" - proprietor of Aunt Cynthia's Bed & Biscuit Inn.

Here's the first portrait of Annie I did in 2004 (ink on scratchboard, 9" x 9")

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A Bevy of Chihuahuas

I have 3 recently completed pet portraits to share - I'll post them separately, starting with this one:

Niña, a long-haired chihuahua.
Ink on Scratchboard, 5" x 6"


This is the reference photo I took, first the color version and then the version I converted to greyscale to get a better idea of the tones for the drawing.



Niña is one of 6 chihuahuas belonging to the same family. In 2004, I created a portrait of their first 4 chihuahuas (all in one drawing). Now they've commissioned individual portraits of their 2 newest girls and new individual portraits of the 4 other girls. Here's the 2004 portrait of the 4 girls.


And a photo of all 6

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