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Wishing everyone a happy, peaceful day and hope the New Year brings you every blessing!

Nice, quiet Christmas Day as we had our family get together last night. The kids were high energy, the food was great and all had a grand time.

Shipped off the last two pet portraits on Wednesday, finished in the nick of….

Bailey Jane, Bichon Frise puppy:

Bichon Frise Bailey Jane Pet Portrait

This was painted in oils (Genesis Heat Set Oils, praise Buddha, or it would never have gotten done in time!) on a 6 x 12 gallery wrapped canvas. The BEST part was the email from the puppy’s Mom when she received it:

Dear Elizabeth,

You captured the sweet spirit of Bailey Jane on canvas!  The painting is magnificent!  It looks just like her!  Thank you so much for painting her and for sending the painting to me on Christmas Eve morning!  There never was a more perfect Christmas Eve gift!  I love it!  I wish you the very best this coming year!  I hope that we can get together this summer when I bring Bailey Jane for a visit.

Then she emailed everyone a picture, then a second picture, with another note:

This photo shows the colors better.  I cropped it for a close up view.  I love it, love it, love it!  I was feeling tired before the package came!  Now I am back in the Christmas mood and can get busy cleaning!

THANK YOU!

It’s not that I am bragging, I’m sharing because (you other artists will understand), when it leaves my easel, the voice in my head is chanting, “It’s not very good, she’ll hate it.” So this really made my day, too!

German Shepherd Pet Portrait

A last minute portrait I rushed through but was pretty happy with, Kuro. I think he’s a German Shepherd mix. His facial bone structure was a challenge and I see why artists study anatomy. To ‘get it’ I had to visualize the underlying bones and eye sockets.  This one is a 9×12 in oils on gallery wrapped canvas.

My grandchildren all were over the moon with the paintings I did for them, which I posted previously. Funny, the one I thought would not care about it, Garrett, being only 3 years old, was AGOG. He opened his “Bear” painting (and he had his REAL “Bear” with him of course) and exclaimed, “OH, it looks just like BEAR!” Then he carried the painting around in a hug along with the real bear saying “Now I have two Bears!”. Adorable. Somebody said later, after mountains of gifts had been opened, that they thought the paintings were the big hit of the night. It made me realize that hand-made things from the heart really do touch the heart and gave me deep happiness that I could make them all happy for a moment.

Again, Merry Christmas!

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WATCH THIS AND WEEP:

Inside Puppy Mill

Sorry to dampen the the sound of jingle bells, but when you see this, you’ll understand why educating America to what is going on is so important. Now, I think there are too many dogs already, as so many get put down daily in shelters due to overcrowding, and I think dog adoption and dog rescue is the heroic thing to do. However, people will continue to breed dogs for money, but why do they have to be cruel to dogs  in the process? A place can be clean, the dogs can be given room to move around, fed well (that would help the “product” don’t you think?).  Where is basic kindness in these people?

Anyway, please share this and get the word out. The US Humane Society is doing a campaign to stop puppy mills: please support them! There is a link to the Pledge on YouTube on the right, as well as a donation link.

Thank you and Merry Christmas to all – joy comes from helping others, so spread the joy!

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A Katrina Rescue

Today is a milestone … well, maybe a quarter milestone since the amount is small…but I set out to begin painting in order to help raise money to help save dogs lives and give abused parrots lifelong sanctuary. My first painting has sold and this morning I sent the funds straight to Tara’s Babies. What a happy day. It wasn’t much, but it’s a start and I know how much they are struggling to give these dogs a second chance. And that with more funds, more dogs could be saved. So quickly, back to the easel. I’ve got three paintings almost finished and they will go up on my eBay shop this weekend. And soon I’ll add a page here to take commissions for pet portraits you can commission.

Even if you don’t want to buy a painting, go to Tara’s Babies, and look at these faces and I dare you to try not to donate to help them.

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