Parklane Gallery in Kirkland, Washington opens their "15th Annual Miniature Show" today – an international exhibit of miniatures. The show will run May 8th to June 3rd, 2007. The painting in this post, a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, is one of five of my miniature paintings are on display at the […] Read more »
Sketch for Lupine Miniature
This is the sketch of a blooming lupine that I made for a new miniature painting. I started this piece to work on during our show this past weekend at the Carpenter Nature Center. The flowers are from one of my trips to the Grand Teton National Park to study […] 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 »
Trumpeter Swan Miniature Painting
This is a new Trumpeter Swan miniature painting that was also recently completed (4″x6″). The sketch for the painting can be found in this post. Read more »
Wolf Miniature Painting
I recently completed the resting wolf miniature painting that some of you may have seen earlier (in progress) on the blog – this is how the piece was finished. Read more »
Seaside Art Gallery – 16th International Miniature Art Show
I just received notice that the three paintings that I sent to the "16th International Miniature Art Show" at the Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head, North Carolina were juried into the exhibition. The Outer Banks gallery was founded in 1961 (the barrier islands of North Carolina). A reception for […] Read more »
Snowy Egret Miniature Painting- Color Progress
This is how my Snowy Egret painting is looking right now. The painting is very subtle and has a lot of very soft color tones in it – unfortunately the richness of the color in the habitat and some of the accents in the egret are not showing up […] 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 »
Wolf Miniature Painting
I started working on this painting last night (still in progress). It will be about 4×6 – watercolor miniature painting of a wolf. Read more »
Snowy Egret Sketch
This is a sketch of a snowy egret that was fishing a little area between the boulders on the beach for a little lunch in the Daytona Beach/New Smyrna Beach area of Florida. Some of my friends put up with me and my sister chasing all of the shorebirds […] Read more »