Surfer Dog Sketch

This is what the surfer dog will look like, depending on how the surfboard actually looks. The paw print design will be placed on the back of his wetsuit. Hope he looks like a dude.

Leadership Mecosta Year of the Dawg Community Art Project

Mecosta County is lettin' the dawgs out! This is a picture of the dog I am painting for a project for my area. I am painting this guy as a surfer. Stay tuned for further developments.

Briar Rose

I'm posting this for IF's topic this week, hoard, because this woman hoards herself by staying in a box rather than sharing herself with others.

Intially, the woman in this image was supposed to have thorns all over her, but when I got to the point of adding them, it just didn't seem right. Maybe I'll do another one and put them in this time...

A Recent Dream

Forgotten

I hate to bum anyone out on such a nice spring day, but the IF topic this week is "Forgotten", so this is what I have for it: When my dad died, my mother was completely lost. At the same time, I was reading many stories in which a person's name was a source of their power. It seemed to me that my mother had forgotten herself so much in her grief that she couldn't even remember her own true name, and so had lost her power and her identity. She doesn't physically look like this, but it was how I saw her mental state.

Laundry Day

This piece is pastel on paper. I found working in pastel on such a tiny figure a bit tricky. It makes me have new respect for the artists who can make pastel look like paint, namely, the intrepid Rosalba Carriera and Mary Cassatt. I'll probably try this again as a big sky painting.

Worry

Hands full of worries...