Painting.

I started painting again during my third trimester of my pregnancy with Stellie. It really just started as a way to relax and slowly morphed into picking up a trail that I left off about 10 years ago when I left art school at Evergreen. Not being in a place where I was enjoying painting, I gave it up sadly. I guess now I have the patience for it and the discipline it takes to begin with an idea and follow through - even pushing through problems that I was never willing to address then. What's even more exciting about this is that other people like them too!

The work comes from my love and respect of animals, primarily "working" and food animals that are at best overlooked from their service to society and at worst mistreated.

This is "White Rabbit on Pedestal" which recently sold...to a stranger! I took her out of the lab and put her curious and playful self up where she belongs.

This is "Ladybug the Great" which my mother bought. My best customer so far.

Just finished this one. "Comet". Sometimes I feel silly for painting chickens, but then again, I am kind of a silly person. And I don't take myself too seriously, especially in art.