Sleepy shih tzu

New elephant pattern

I finished drawing up my latest pattern of an elephant:

Weimaraner, Goldendoodle, and Clouded leopard patterns

Distractions

Not much new art-wise has been going on with me the last couple months because my schedule suddenly got a LOT more hectic with the addition of a brand-new family member. Meet Kodo:






He is a 19 week old Bernese mountain dog, brought home when he was 16 weeks. His unbiased parents think he is VERY photogenic though, so if I come out with a new BMD puppy cutting in the near future, you will know where the inspiration comes from.. ;)

I haven't been totally a slacker though- I do have a show coming up Sunday May 4th at the Moreland Hills elementary school. I have several new patterns I have designed and cut but I just haven't got the sale pieces matted, backed and posted on the finished-pieces section of my website yet. The patterns can be seen in the patterns section until that is done however. I also still hope to work up a couple more large framed pieces for this year, and do some work on the paper sculpture end as well..

Cocker Spaniel pattern

Kuvasz

German Wirehaired Pointer

Keeshond

Birds of Prey weekend

I got a chance to see a hawk and owl live animal program at the Rocky River Nature Center. The presentations were given by a staff member at the Lake Erie Nature and Science Center. He did a fantastic job with the information in the presentations, and it was thrilling to have live raptors only a couple feet away from me. He brought a kestrel, peregrine, red-tailed hawk, great horned owl, barred owl, and screech owl. Of course I had my camera with me and I got a couple good pictures, so I am planning on designing a couple owl and hawk papercuttings over the next couple months. Stay tuned!

A little late..

I have been soo busy lately I haven't had much time to post, so to catch up..

December 1st and 2nd I had an art show at the ArtCraft building downtown (thanks to Mark!!). It went really well for me- we were really busy all day. I only got a couple minutes at the beginning and ends of the show days to wander around and see the other fantastic artwork on display there.

Today (and hopefully tomorrow) I spent about four hours wandering around the big dog show that Cleveland holds this weekend at the I-X Center. I took a lot of wonderful dog pictures thanks to all the owners and handlers that took time to talk with me and pose their dogs for me, so I will hopefully be coming out with some great new papercuttings in the next couple months. Some of them were of dog breeds I didn't have in my inventory already, which is even better. I plan on starting in on the smooth-coated Chihuahua, Miniature Pinscher, and Pyrenean Shepherd as soon as I finish off my Christmas commissions...