Linda’s Cat
Fernando
Great Uncle Pee Wee
Fernando and Greta
The Babies
Greta’s friend Helen. Chicken portraits: watercolor on Arches 140# hot press paper, approx. 9 x 12 in. except the Babies who are on cold press paper.
Hannibal and Louise: watercolor, handmade paper cp, 10 x 13 in / 26 x 33 cm
Elanora’s teenage ducks: watercolor, handmade paper cp, 10 x 13 in / 26 x 33 cm
Lila: watercolor, handmade paper cp, 10 x 13 in / 26 x 33 cm
Lizard Series
Painted on location at a neighborhood pet store: ink pen on 4 x 6 paper samples from Legion Paper in NY.
Every Saturday morning for 11 weeks I had an hour and half to kill while waiting for my son’s hip hop dance class to end. I found a pet store close to the dance school. The store had this amazing reptile room. I started drawing. It was a couple weeks before anyone even asked me what I was doing. Finally one curious employee asked, “Hey, everyone is wondering, who is the lady writing letters to the lizards?” Why did they think I was writing letters to the lizards? Is this something that happens occasionally? I thought it obvious that I was drawing. But they were small drawings. And I did hold my notebook close to my face.
Years have passed. My children are finally out of the house. I am working on my lizard portraits once more. Experimenting with pulling prints of the original drawings and painting into them with gouache, watercolor and latex paint from Restoration Hardware.
