Chasing Deadlines – Cougar Sepia

cougar work in progress, 5" x 7", sepia watercolor on board, ©Rebecca Latham

cougar work in progress, 5″ x 7″, sepia watercolor on board, ©Rebecca Latham I’ve had quite a few deadlines creeping up on me lately.. some survived, others didn’t.  I like to have extra space to set a piece aside and study it, see what tweaks it may need.. but I […] Read more »

Twin Fawns in Grass 11×14 (Sepia, Work in Progress)

A little bit larger than I often work… this piece is about 11in x 14in (sepia watercolor on board at this point, work in progress).  This is a rather involved painting with all of the detail in the animals themselves as well as an ocean of grass surrounding them.  ..so […] Read more »

Raven 9×12 (Sepia)

Raven in progress, watercolor on board, 12in x 9in, ©Rebecca Latham I have always found ravens fascinating. However, until this piece I had never painted one.  I am particularly drawn to the patterns of his silky black feathers, reflecting a soft blue sheen that will be in this piece. ….so […] Read more »

12×16 white wolf (Sepia)

This is a detail photograph of a new white wolf I am working on – shown in the sepia stage of the painting.  I am really looking forward to working in the porous and pitted rock texture as well as moving into the color phase of bringing up the backlighting […] Read more »

Timberwolf Painting – The Starting Point

    This is the beginnings of a wolf piece – the sepia stage (My favorite part….where the essence of the piece is painted in crisp watercolor).  The painting is one of my larger miniatures at 24″ x 36″ – so adding all of the texture to the animal, covering […] Read more »

Catching Up — African Wildlife, New Paintings

I haven't posted in a while, it seems that all of a sudden I have so many requests for new work that I just can't do anything but paint lately -- not a bad thing. I'm really blessed to have so many great opportunities.... Read more »

Travel the Country – Wild Southwest

I have been able to study and travel to many beautiful areas, and am very fortunate.  It is fantastic to have so many subjects to choose from. :)  Decisions, decisions.  I will post some of these new paintings that are being planned out in a bit.  :) Aside from dreaming […] Read more »

Red Fox Miniature Painting

This is another new piece I have sitting in my studio right now.  You may notice the dark strokes look a bit different on this piece than some of the other sketches I have on the blog.  That is because for this piece I did some "redrawing" in paint – […] Read more »

White Tiger – Sketch for the Painting

This is my iniatal sketch I used for the white tiger painting I’m working on at the moment.   It is a rendering of one of the White Tigers we studied in Cincinatti during the NFL’s filming of them for television commercials.  The painting is now in it’s color phase of […] Read more »