" Devlin & Callie "

7  x  9  Watercolor pencils

This is Devlin and Callie for Liz Holm moleskins on The Flying Moleskins project. Her theme is portraits and the one done by Dana of her mom is so beautiful..... so mine went to the dogs !!!

 I am a dog lover and these two are so cute it was such a pleasure to draw them.

I haven't used my watercolor pencils in a while and thought it would be the perfect medium for these 2 pups.

The wonder of motherhood !

I took my daughter out to lunch at this great sandwich place. I always have my camera with me and while I was inside picking up our order this is what she did.
Wrote a note and took a picture of herself but she did not tell me about it and it is only upon downloading my pictures a few days later that I saw this.
I am blessed !    = )

Love is Patient...

                                                       12 x 16   Acrylic

This piece was done in the colors of the wedding and their future household for a good friend of my daughter from college who got married on Saturday
" Terrence and Kimberly Hale " at one point he sang to her ( he has an amazing voice ) and there was not one dry eye in the crowd. Then we rejoiced with good food and dancing.
What else can top that.
I pray each one reading these verses would get the full impact of their powers.
( if you want something like this just e-mail me )

" the road ahead "

                                                           7 x 9 Acrylics

This is for Angela's moleskins of "the flying moleskins"project . it seems that I reverted to what I like to paint, roads, trees and such with shadows. ( I guess it's my theme in your book Angela) Sorry !

May the road ahead for you be always filled with laughter, mercy, grace, but especially love dear Angela. Hope you like it. 

It's coming your way Michelle

" GRACE "

                                                    8  x  10    Oil

This is Grace my chocolate labrador. I have many pictures of her but until now I had never done an oil painting of her or any other animal btw.

I have to say the original painting looks so much better. I had a hard time adjusting the browns it was getting so green and red. 

Oh well, here she is looking as I'm getting ready to go and wondering will I take her with me ?
BTW I purposefully choose a picture that was somewhat blurry because I wanted a more painterly feel, as I had to just make up some of the areas. It forces me to just paint with out being too precise. I have a tendency to be exact so I try to find ways to get me in the opposite direction.

" ASHLEY "

                                        

8 x 10      Pen & Ink

          

                            8 x 10     Pen & Ink, Watercolor, Colored Pencil

My daughter has a good friend who just got married these are from pictures I took of her.
The background is the color of her bridesmaids dresses.
A beautiful young lady in & out .

If you know someone interested in having an art piece done like this of your wedding dress e-mail me at artbydominique at yahoo dot com

My Stuff

                                                      8  x  10      Oil

Well this one is for Adebanji's Moleskins and his theme is Homelessness / Poverty.
I've been thinking about this book for months and I like painting faces so I've been taking pictures of different people I see around my city (San Diego) wanting to get one that represent what I hoped to portray.
But it seems that something else was in the works for me.
A few days ago this picture jumped at me walking downtown with Tiffany. I thought it was striking as it was making this homeless stuff so in your face with the lights and shadows.
So I've been thinking about it and it seem as we all consider Our stuff to be very important, yet we will not be able to take it with us when we die and most of our children do not like our stuff so they will sell it as soon as we're gone to get their stuff. So, I guess this reminder is for me, to take my stuff with a light heart and be ready to give it away to those that might need it more than me, after all it's only STUFF.
God doesn't bless us to increase our standard of living.
God blesses us to increase our standard of giving.
He gives us money to check our hearts. If you love money you will use people. If you love people you will use money.