Masterworks in Miniature 2013

Glance Back - Red Fox, 5″x7″, watercolor on board, ©Rebecca Latham

Glance Back – Red Fox, 5″x7″, watercolor on board, ©Rebecca Latham I am pleased to be a part of the Masterworks in Miniature show at Gallery One again this year. The painting I have in the exhibit is a red fox, inspired by a resident that would nap in a meadow […] Read more »

Completed Painting – Red Fox, Prairie Vole, & Junco

This is a new painting that was recently completed as a commission for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.  The painting will be reproduced as lithographic prints and conservation stamps through DNR’s habitat conservation program.  :) Read more »

Fox Kit Commission

This is the progress on the red fox kit commission painting that I am nearly finished with – I thought that I should show the progress.   (There are a few more things that I am still fussing with, though…not quite completed…) :D .  Read more »

Nature References

Some people find it interesting that I (or other artists in my family) will bring twigs, sticks, grass, rocks, leaves, logs, etc. into the studio to paint from life – so I thought that some of you may like to see the log that’s in my studio right now for […] Read more »

Commission Progress – Red Fox Kit Miniature Watercolors

This is the progress of the three fox kit miniature paintings in my studio right now.  I have a lot of the detail on the foxes themselves painted in already, though I’m not completely finished with them yet.  For the commission, I am fortunate to have no set deadline, so […] Read more »

Red Fox Kit Miniature Watercolors – Painting Progress

These are a few scans of some of the recent progress on the fox kit miniatures that I’m painting (one of them is a commissioned work – the inspiration for the collection).  In my studio right now, they are farther into the color stages than what is shown here – […] Read more »

Sketches – Red Fox Kit Miniature Commission

I’ve been commissioned to paint a small fox kit painting – a portrait.  These are three sketches I made in preparation for the painting, though I might just paint all of the poses.  The painting is for a very nice lady that just loves red foxes. :D I had the […] Read more »

Oops. Scratch that.

No matter how well things are planned out, something always seems to mess it up.  It never fails.  Murphy’s Law, I suppose.  But somehow, everything always turns out just fine, or even better than we had hoped for.  Odd, isn’t it?   :) This is a recent image of the fox […] Read more »