Dec 31, Otter Wonder

 I'm in Portland, visiting a very close friend, and it is so weird to be somewhere else at this time of year!  We aren't planning much for tonight, maybe watch the New York fun if I can stay up that late, and I hope you are having some fun wherever you are! It is a great thing to be able to move on, to the next year, with hope and some anticipation. As I get older, I value even more those people whose love has been a part of my life for so long.

This is Otter Wonder, I like it. That is just such a great shape, that critter on the snow!  There's no snow here!

8x8 acrylic on wood

$150

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Dec 29, Otterly Curious

 Here's a new otter painting for you, and it will be hanging at the Confluence Gallery at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge starting next Thursday and going til April! Duane and Max got some sweet photos at the zoo last week for me. I haven't painted otters just sitting on the snow for a while, and I was smitten with that negative/positive space interplay going on. They are just such wonderful shapes!

And I had to include a couple shots of us on our walk yesterday, with our sweet friends Julie and Jeff at the Wildlife Refuge!  This one is just at the end of American Boulevard by the Mall of America, and a great snowy walk!

I hope you are having a great holiday season, and enjoying some time relaxing and being with friends and family!

10x20 acrylic on canvas

$400

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL!!!

Dec 16, Maisy and Milo!

Alright!  I've been gloriously swamped under a beautiful deluge of commissions and I can't post most of them because they are gifts and I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I CAN post this one because it has already been given!

The photo was a bit blurry, and the larger dog is actually sitting in front of the smaller, so I had to do a lot more futzing with adjustments to get it appear that they are next to each other, and you know how much I love painting black dogs!

10x10 acrylic on wood

sold

 

December 7, The Light Through the Trees

 This is a repost, because I'm wanting to make sure I'm posting and I can't post what I'm painting right now which is an absolute storm of love! I have this amazing, glorious stack of beautiful creatures on my studio table that I'm working through, and I can't show you yet because they are all commissioned paintings as gifts for people. So after the holidays I can start showing you these!

And I also wanted to post this one because it will be at the Confluence Gallery at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington this January along with a collection of my paintings of other Minnesota Mammals and waters, especially OTTERS!

I have sold so many of my otter paintings, I have to paint more for this show! What a problem...

36x12 acrylic on canvas

$865

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