Category Archives: children’s book

National Chihuahua Appreciation Day

I have so many Chihuahuas that I have sketched or painted that I had a bit of a tough time choosing which ones to post. I decided to repost some of my Tiny Dogs from my Tin Dog series of 2020. These tiny dogs were painted in a tiny sketchbook that was provided by theContinue reading “National Chihuahua Appreciation Day”

Inktober Day 2

The prompt for today is “discover.” Lucy and Mack have “discovered” live Halloween decorations. Carved pumpkins seem to attract all sorts of creatures. When we lived up North. the local squirrels would eat the Jack O’Lantern every year. They would also eat the uncarved pumpkins, too. Here in Florida, we found out the hard wayContinue reading “Inktober Day 2”

Summer Painting #8

It has already been a warm summer so far, so I thought that I would do a painting of a “cool” item from the suggested list. “Popsicle” is one of the suggestions on the list, though I am not sure why “ice cream cone” isn’t, but just as well, they are both a ton ofContinue reading “Summer Painting #8”

Summer Painting #3

Today’s painting is of a subject near and dear to my heart….sandpipers.  Sandpipers are comical little birds and I could sit and watch them over and over without ever getting tired of them.  They have their own personalities and there always seems to be a bully that wants to control the entire beach.  Disney PixarContinue reading “Summer Painting #3”

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day

I had already done my “day” sketch earlier of National Chicken Dance Day. (I sketched a chicken, dancing. I have been going about my day working on some catching up, sketching and drawing away.  …listening to Zoom recordings either on repeat or ones that I missed.  Hoping to get to the juicy podcasts I wasContinue reading “International Chihuahua Appreciation Day”

It takes two

Here, our two lonely coyotes meet and sing a duet. I really like how this heart turned out.  When I started it, I almost thought I was going to need to gesso over it and start over.  The coyotes and ground turned out fine, but the background was a hot mess.  I layered the backgroundContinue reading “It takes two”

Solo Song

A forgotten song Of Longing and love thought lost Springs forth from the heart Gina Lento Coyote song can evoke many emotions.  One of them can be fear.  There is nothing more surreal than the first time you hear the yips and howls, especially when you hear them just outside your window.  A cold primalContinue reading “Solo Song”

Whimsical Valentine portrait

I haven’t posted this yet because it was hanging up for Valentines’ Day. This is our little family as it is today, with Hubby. Mack, Lucy and myself. We look a little different than we did last year, and the year before. Last year, we had just lost Chloe so we were still in mourningContinue reading “Whimsical Valentine portrait”

Garden Lion

I mentioned the other day that I originally wanted to do the Fluffy lion with the sagriffito technique and I forgot to do it and just started to paint the lion. This time, I did remember and I painstakingly etched into the wood the outline of the lion. It didn’t quite come out as IContinue reading “Garden Lion”