Black Leopard Progress…

This is the progress of the black leopard watercolor painting that I have been working on (see an earlier post here).  It is beginning to have the feeling of mood and atmosphere that I am striving for in this painting.  I will be refining it further (which, I suppose, is […] Read more »

Plans for a Black Leopard

This is the beginnings of a drawing for another miniature watercolor piece I have in the works.  I was requested to paint a more aggressive pose of a black leopard as a smaller miniature, so this is a 5×7 of a leopard ready for an attack.  The subject of the […] Read more »

Large Cougar Watercolor Painting

I was in an accident a while back, some of my blog visitors may have heard, it was an incident with an overly playful cougar about a year ago.  The event slowed me down a bit with my injuries and pulled muscles, but everything turned out fine (thankfully).  …am very […] Read more »

New Work on the Move

I spoke with one of my galleries recently who was requesting more work to exhibit in their showroom.  A very nice problem to have, being sold out or having low inventory in my galleries.  :)   I do wish that I could paint a little faster.   ;) This is a new […] Read more »

Wild Places, Wild Animals, Wild Experiences

The natural wilderness is filled with extremely beautiful and breathtaking views, habitats, and creatures.  Nonetheless, it is a wild and rugged terrain that is treacherous.  Many of the beautiful creatures that I study to render in my work are predators.  Because of this, there is always a certain danger to […] Read more »

Conservation for Wild Cats

I spent the day surrounded by wildcats — simply breathtaking. :)  We are working with Big Cat Rescue, gathering reference for new work through numerous hours of study.  We have some fund raising work scheduled for the near future – I will be sure to post about that when plans […] Read more »

New Artwork – Cats & Birds

I have just started two new pieces – one of them is a fairly large scaled painting.  They are both in their sketch phase at the moment, but I will likely start painting on them this evening. The first piece is of a white tiger — one of the beautiful tigers we […] Read more »