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I'm so glad you like her!  

I experiment with a lot of arty things, but I keep at the oil painting.  Here's a link to my site.  http://rdixonart.weebly.com

I like to paint pet portraits.  Here is a picture I recently painted of my sisters dogs Bella and Gretta.  They live in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  I hope you like it. I am not sure if the picture will post or not.  I did not see it in the preview.

Exceptional portraits.

I lost all of my art scans when my other laptop crashed, but here are some paintings from a few years ago.

Oops, I thought I got knocked offline before that one posted.  Sorry to double post.

Thank you everyone for sharing your beautiful work.  So inspiring!

Kate Callahan, nice work with the dogs.  The one on the left, especially, makes me think she's a fun-loving goofette.  Over the years, I've painted many portraits of my friend's dogs, and thought I could do pet portraits as a sideline.  I was mistaken--without knowing the dog personally, I find it difficult to convey the personality.  So I'm sticking to dogs I know.

Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement.  I don't really know my sisters dogs on a personal level as we live pretty far from each other, but the one on the left is definitely a fun-loving goofette according to my sister.  Painting is a God given gift and I really enjoy it. It is a form of meditation and often when I am done, I look at the work and think to myself, how did I do that?

Vampire Bat hand embroidery

been doing epic amounts of craftwork, especially beadwork lately, thought i would share some of the pics...

took a lot of pics for listing on etsy.com, but before i could post them up pre christmas time, i sold most everything i had photographed before even getting to list! well still have a lot of stuff to list, once i get another big photo session done of my latest work..

already sold all of the pieces i made in this style -->











will have to make some time to make some more, but the spiral stitched straps take quite a while so i havent yet made any more with those amethyst pendants...
do still have a few left that i did with abalone centerpieces..





and quite a few i did with no pendant, just the spiral stitch








also made a ton of rainbows!







did a couple of commissioned pieces of extra long rainbow earrings, and decided to make a few more that way-->



liked these so much i made a duplicate and been enjoying these for myself -->



well thats probably more than enough for now =)
procrastinating a bit to list what i do have left to list on etsy...if i finally get it all listed up in the next few days i will remember to come back here to drop a link...

Beautiful  beadwork!  Congrats on the sales.

thanks =)
yeah i have been doing ok and selling a lot of stuffs =)

my new landmates are much more extroverted/social, and they have been selling my stuff for me on consignment...which is nice. plus i have been selling online and people contact me for pieces that they saw, or something similar. i like that my work sells itself, when it does =)

from the Forge on our farm.  Artist James DW Cooper aka hubby