Its Sunday am. What should I paint next?

this is Linus, my daughter's cat. Lazy, even in play.  You may have seen him floating over Central park in  "Flying Dream."  Anyway, I owe Meghan a portrait for creating and maintaining  my Pepper Portraits website.  I think I might add a ball-bell toy in the far right corner.  What do you think?

Ears to be the cover of JAVMA June 15th edition!

JAVMA, the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association has chosen Ears for their June 15 2013 edition. This is my second cover for the journal.  It is so much fun to have a magazine delivered to the vet office where I work, featuring my painting!

Don't blow it!

With one painting awarded Best of Show, Judges Award and People's Favorite; the same painting reproduced into giclee with four prints already sold; another painting used on the cable show BAR RESCUE;  an artist demo on landscapes published in Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Magazine, and yet another painting to grace the cover of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, one could say that things are going well for Pepper Portraits LLC.  Yet, I've been doing this long enough to realize that a cluster of good fortune usually comes after months of drought and grueling work. Maintaining momentum is the trick.

Blue Crab

  Dimensions: 29x19"; Medium: Colored Pencil on Mat Board. This  is my daughter, on the bay side of Perdido Key, Pensacola Florida. The references were taken last Christmas. Unusual to use a winter beach scene, don't you think? With so much blue, I came close to cropping out most of the water, but decided to stick with the original.  I like the negative space.  It adds to the story.Alice