My first cat! (To paint.) Bubba is one of the Newman family cats. The Newmans are Anne and Gary – my in-laws and they are kitty people, kit-tens as they say. I was over in their incredible garden looking for painting ideas one spring (years ago) and there was...
Shop Archival Prints As I saw this image in the digital camera viewer, I thought “that’s a painting!” Our puppy Bo was just 12 weeks old. We were playing with my nieces on the big lawn out at my folks. Even as a little waggly, curious puppy, he...
I had drawn this painting of our dog BJ a couple of weeks before he died. While I was drawing it, I had the thought that it would be interesting to paint it while he was alive, as I had painted our previous dog, Bud, after he’d died. Then we lost BJ to an awful...
Bud was my husband Joe’s dog. He was nine when we met – the first dog in my life. I took the photo I painted from on a regular walk up the hill by our Petaluma house. It was a blazingly bright March morning. Afew weeks later Bud developed arthritis and...
Icarus is a stately Borzoi (Russian wolfhound) who lives with his mom Beverley and canine siblings. I met his mom at the Healdsburg art festival one September. We made a lovely connection which deepened when she had the thought that I might paint Icarus’...
I met Louise through her friend Ann, who saw my art in the Bank of Marin – we just never know how the connections are going to happen. She came to my house with Ann to take a look at the rest of my work and saw the painting I’d done of Bud the Dog. She...
