Nothing made me happier as a child than spending an afternoon with a new box of crayolas, a new coloring book, and my trusty sidekick...my dog. It's still pretty much the same as a senior citizen. I spend a lot of my days in my studio creating dog portraits for clients who mostly found me online or on facebook. I do about 25-30 new portraits per year, and have done so since about 1986. I started out in the professional art world doing mostly wildlife art in pastels, but after sustaining a whiplash injury in 1992, I started limiting the size of my paintings and drawings so as...more
