new painting

I have a soft spot for this painting.  It's of the nicer cat, Scout, and she's gifted at making herself sleek and graceful and paintable.  Look how she curled her tail around her ankle here.  Oh she's good.  Sweet, loving, fun.  She'd be pretty much...

Ok just barely started, long way to go, but is this ever fun.I'm trying to decide how to do the window behind.  In the original photo it was a sunny summer day out there, with beach towels reflected hanging over the edge of the porch.  Is it...

Oh I know, I know!  Awful picture!!!  Do you want to know why?  I was trying to take a picture of it up here in dark winter Canada and the polar bear I was steadying my camera on was shivering!  True story!!!If you sort of squint a...

You might remember these guys.  I went on to paint a much bigger one showing all of the bench they're on.  I still have to go back in and do detail on the crows on that one, and I'm hesitating because I liked how it went so...

Like it?  Last January I painted the one down below there but I've been looking at it recently and thinking it was missing something.  A theme lately.  My paintings all get nervous and worried when I line them up and start looking them over.  Who's...

I always have to stop and think: pomegranate or persimmon?I love them both.  This one is a pomegranate.  It's big and bright and fun.  Third time I've painted this one, actually.  First quite small, then bigger, and now 24"x24".  Every time I'm at my art...

This is how it was.This is how it is now (with apologies for a dark day's photo and the need for a flash).You can tell the truth, do you think it got better?  If you don't, it's OK.  I promise not to cry.Too much.I like...

Actually there's one more I was working on, but it's at a stinker stage so I'll keep that one to myself for now!  This one is going to have some more work on it too but I like the liveliness in it.  Crows.  I like their sassy ways.All...