Art Dog Blog

Ok, another post about the puppy. What can I say, I am in love with this Scottie. This is the sweetest little girl. I played around tonight ...

Well, we did it! We adopted a new Scottie puppy. Her name is Pixel and she is just as sweet as can be. Her full name is "Pixel Chiffon ...

We may be getting a new Scottish Terrier puppy today. I plan to get totally caught up with portrait orders over the weekend so I can spend a...

I'm starting a new blog with my husband Dan. It is a dog photo blog , and we are sort of creating it as a hobby type of thing to encoura...

I am always surfing the web to see what is going on out there in the world of pet portraits. You have to check out the work of Kathy Weller....

I adore older dogs. I met an old half blind stray this week. She was a very lovely old gal. A pal of mine dropped by needing to have a photo...

Yesterday I posted a tiny little snippet on the site about my Pet Portrait Process. My adventures into pushing pixels around has evolved qui...

Dan & I went to the Dallas Zoo on Sunday and had a terrific time playing with our new camera. It seems to be spring here in Texas and th...

As a portrait artist my favorite aspect of my subjects is of course the eyes. Working from ordinary snapshots I often face challenges with g...

Wow, 06 and it is year of the dog. Time to get back to blogging. The holiday season was amazing. Not only did we do over 100 portraits this ...

Well it has been quiet awhile since my last post. We did take a short trip in June, but that is really no excuse. I have been pretty busy pl...

In this art piece I decided to leave in the checker board tile floor so that I could enhance the fun angle this was shot at. I rotated Floyd...

Ok, this little Pug-Guy is just way too cute with his beenie "flying cap" on. His humans named him "Sirloin Theodore of Pugs...

Greta the Chinese Pug is a new commission I am working on. This adorable girl is a new favorite of mine. I really like this fun green and re...

Well it is tax week, and my creative energies are being thwarted by mountains of paper work. I have very little to talk about this week. I d...

Well it has been a week now since our boy left us for the rainbow bridge, doggy heaven, or whatever far off place good boys go when they die...

When I started doing digital pet portraits way back in 1998, very few people owned a digital camera. Back then I worked with old fashioned s...

Patrick the Corgi is one of my all time favorites. This painterly style digital portrait started from a really good snapshot provided by Pat...

Well it has been awhile since my last post. We have been fighting an uphill battle for some time with cancer in our Scottie boy Atticus. I w...

Nikki is an adorable Boston Terrier that I created this painterly styled portrait for last November. I exaggerated her ears a tad and had a ...