I found a great artist...

I love looking into other blogs, seeing what other artists are working on. Usually I start out checking in on Jo Castillo's blog, then click on one of the blogs she's following, and start bloghopping from there. That's how I found Holly Bedrosian. She's a very talented portrait artist, doing exceptionally detailed work in colored pencil. She is working on a beautiful self portrait right now.http://www.hollybedrosian.blogspot.com

this is as far as I could take the watercolor portrait of Ellie, still have a lot to learn!

Finally getting around to posting again.

I've been mourning the loss of our dog, Bodie. He was a very elderly gentle soul. We had to take him to his last vet appointment on December 27th. He lived into his fifteenth year, which is very hard on a dog of his size. He was still very happy to see our daughter, Jaime, and her family at Christmas. ( He chewed through a lot of her teenage shoes in his puppy years.)

I only wish our son, Jason, could have seen him one more time, too. Jason was the one who talked me into adopting him from the Humane Society. He was absolutely right, Bodie was "the coolest dog ever!"