For those that follow my blog you may remember a challenging commission I took on last year titled 'Sweet Tea'  . This ...

I finished this up yesterday but found myself futzing around with it today until I told myself to "stop it, Billie!" I can...

Latest update. I'm making progress slowly but surely. What I'm really glad about is the suspension cables. They don't look l...

Sorry I've fallen off the grid for so long. It's been a tough month and I simply haven't felt like painting. I finally got ba...

Yesterday I lost my last kitty, Gizmo to old age and illness and the house feels so strange now. No little furry 'people' to welc...

The sketch I'm not sure how much detail I will include  in the final painting. Better to have more detail available than I will ne...

After cropping the greyscaled image I put it into GIMP photo editor  and played with the perspective to create  an exaggerated towering ...

  Today has been one of those amazing autumn days in northern Michigan when the sun is shining and the weather is unseaso...

 The CEO  is back for an encore. This time he's painted as a  faux batik on waxed paper . I replaced the India ink with walnut ink...

Okay, so I'm a day late. I was playing with copper leaf and Lumiere metallic acrylics last night and came up with this one so I thoug...

 I managed to finish my 'Clowder of Cats' sketch but lost interest before I could start painting. It happens sometimes. I...

I'm currently working on the comp for a new painting. I'm doing it with my usual storyboard technique. Seems there are a few issu...

'Ladybug' and we all know one or two. 'Katydid' and she did come to visit me last summer.  I was fortunate to snap a ...

 What to do when one is temporarily without inspiration...doodle! Last night I doodled these frogs and the title came to me today. ...

I scanned the completed painting. The colors are still off but better than the photos. There's no green in the painting even though it...

First pour My color trial  A quick update on this project. I'm posting my color trial and the first pour. I managed to do a ...

I just finished transferring my drawing to Yupo and inking all the lines with Micron pen. I had a ton of fun coming up with patterns for...

I've started on yet another ink/Yupo project. This time it's a school of imaginary fish. I thought it would be fun to add some Ze...

SOLD Although it doesn't look like I made any changes, I made a few. I used blending solution to bleed some background color into ...

 Nothing is more scary or knot-in-the-stomach exciting as spending hours drawing, transferring and inking a piece only to turn little ...