Month: June 2024

Isn’t it interesting how a bunch of dots can come together to make a believable scene? The Impressionists discovered this.

The longest day of the year is this Thursday, June 20. Here’s hoping you have lots of sunshine and nature in your life this summer.

Your dog or cat can help you make sure all humans who want to vote can do so! In North Carolina (where we moved 3 years ago), if you are a person of color, it can be scary to register and vote — from restrictive voter ID laws, to Proud Boys’ pickups trucks near the polls with shotguns in their gun racks. When you commission a pet portrait, 100% will be donated to fight voter discrimination. Election season sale: pet portraits are not $250, but $195. Yesterday I finished this painting of Zeke, a long-haired dachshund, commissioned as a Father’s Day gift.

For the first Monday in the seven years since I started this blog, I forgot to post my weekly painting on Memorial Day last week!

Drawn by the variation in the fields and sky, I snapped a photo of this view and painted it later in a wide sketchbook. It’s a good example of one-point perspective, as all the lines converge on a single vanishing point in the middle. I find the scene appealing and hope you do too.