Mastiff

A colored pencil portrait of a Mastiff I did to accompany my donation of a portrait gift certificate to a fundraising auction for a Mastiff rescue group.  The auction starts November 24th, and I'll post a link when it begins.

Mastiff, colored pencil, 7" x 5"

Birthday Flowers

From a photo of a bouquet of flowers that I received as a gift from my fella, now immortalized in pastel:

Birthday Flowers, pastel, 6" x 8"

Lone Tree on Lonely Road

The support is illustration board covered with a few coats of Art Spectrum Colourfix primer in burgundy.  It's been a long time since I did a landscape!

Lone Tree on Lonely Road.  Pastel.  14" x 7"

Geese At The Fair

I've made it past phase one of the judging for the MN State Fair Fine Arts competition with my piece "Geese At The Fair!"

Oil pastel, 24" x 12".

Phase two judging takes place the last weekend of July.

Update!  "Geese At The Fair" will be on display at the fair!  You can see it at the Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Building (corner of Randall and Cosgrove) August 23rd through Labor Day.

Update II, Electric Boogaloo!   "Geese At The Fair" has been sold!  Okay, so it didn't win any awards, but I'm still thrilled my work has found a good home.  

And I'll get around to a truly new post one of these days, I promise...

Fluffy

"Fluffy," colored pencil on panel, 12" x 9".

The latest in my "Contrary Pet Names" series.

Bruiser

I'm working on a series, "Contrary Pet Names."  This is the first piece, "Bruiser," colored pencil, 9" x 12".

That is one vicious looking Pomeranian, let me tell ya...

Sheep update

Remember this sheep?  Well, I've been playing with it a bit more, messing around with some new materials and techniques...unfortunately the paper warped pretty badly, but should I decide to mat and frame it that should hold it down fine.

"Sheep," 12" x 9", pastel on paper.