2 Awards in the "Art Show at the Dog Show"

Great News! I found out that I won 2 awards in the 29th Annual National Juried Fine Arts competition at the "Art Show at the Dog Show" in Wichita, Kansas. My colored pencil drawing of the "Rodesian Ridgeback" received a 3rd place award in the Drawing Category and my photograph of my dearly departed Ibizan hound "Halen" received 4th place in the Photography Category. I never entered the photography category before so this is quite an honor and especially since it was my favorite photo of my beautiful boy.

All 30 Paintings in 30 Days

I really enjoyed Leslie Saeta's "30 Paintings in 30 Days" challenge . I am very glad I chose to do people portraits this year because It greatly helped me to improve on my speed and accuracy of creating the human portrait. Thank you all for following

Day 30 "Haley Selfie 2012" Colored Pencil

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Colored Pencil

Day 30 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. My last piece is a colored pencil painting of Haley from one of her selfies taken in 2012. I have enjoyed this challenge and am proud that I stuck to my theme of people portraits. It was not easy doing a portrait a day and also working on commissions and painting for my galleries.

Day 29 "Young Re-enactor girls" watercolor

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Watercolor

Day 29 of the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. This is a watercolor painting of 2 young re-enactor girls from my reference photo taken at a campsite at Codorus State Park.

Day 28 "Girl with Golden Retriever" Oil

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oil painting

Day 28 of "30 paintings in 30 days" challenge is a painting of a little girl with a gold retriever. My photo reference was taken at a therapy dog visit at a camp for children with challenges.

Day 27 "Haley and Tiger" Oil

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Oil on canvas

Day 27 of the "30 paintings in 30 days" challenge is an oil painting of Haley with Tiger the cat. My granddaughter is my all time favorite model. I should have kept track of how many paintings I have done of her since she was born.

Day 26 "Danielle and Rocky" Watercolor

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watercolor

Day 26 of the "30 paintings in 30 days" is a watercolor of Danielle and Rocky on the day they met. I took the reference photo and always thought that Rocky had that look on his face because he knew he found his forever mommy.