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Groundbreaking Success

Posted in Dogs, tagged on April 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The groundbreaking took place as scheduled and now the building of the park begins.  WooHoo!  Thanks to everyone who has helped to make our park a reality.

Many thanks to the Northern Virginia Daily for their great coverage.  Read all about it here.

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Spring Dogs

Posted in Dogs, tagged , , , on March 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Spring Jed

This time of the year I take  loads of photos to use as reference for my paintings.  Most serious artists have tons of photos to  use throughout the year as they develop paintings. 

And I can’t help but take photos of my kids too.  It’s hard to get them to sit still usually, especially Lincoln.  But this time a bird was tweeting in the tree and he was transfixed.

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The Kid’s Pet Portrait Workshop

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , , , , on March 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Dorothy working on Fiona

Kaylee painting Frisky

Mara painting Max

    

I captured a photo of Kaylee and Dorothy with their finished pet portraits from Saturday’s Pet Portrait Workshop.  (See it below.)  Mara got away before I could get her finished photo.  I’ll try to get a photo of her with the finished Max to show you all.  They all turned out great!  You girls are terrific.  Thanks for making Saturday so much fun!!!

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Dogs Gone Wild!

Posted in Dogs, Travel, tagged , , on March 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I write a lot about Lincoln because he is usually misbehaving so I have more stories about his antics so I wanted to lead with Jed in this post.  He’s a handsome guy and so good.  He had fun at the cabin last weekend running and stretching and rolling in the grass.

Max came to visit so he chased Lincoln and gave him some really good exercise.

 

 

Max loves Lincoln and follows him everywhere.  They are so cute playing.

It worried me when Max chased him around the pond because Lincoln can’t swim….legs too short to hold up that long body.

Max wore himself out running and playing but he couldn’t give it up.  He would fall asleep with the ball still in his mouth.  So funny!

 

And this is what my boys looked like after Max and his mom left to go home.  Two tired pups!

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Max Booe

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged , , , , , , on March 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

This is Max Booe.

This is Max’s portrait.

This is Judi, Max’s mom after she received the gift of Max’s portrait from the friend who commissioned the painting.  She likes it.

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Pooped Pups

Posted in Dogs, tagged on March 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Pooped pups just home from the cabin this morning.  They have been out there a hundred times and still have not learned to pace themselves!  🙂

 

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Dogs in Art

Posted in Dogs, tagged , on March 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

There was a very interesting article that I read yesterday about Dogs in Art.  Check it out here.

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Twelve Years Ago Today

Posted in Dogs on March 4, 2012| 4 Comments »

Twelve years ago today my friend, Carol and her granddaughter, Kayla (now my dog-sitter), went down to another friend, Sally’s, house in Raleigh to pick up the newest member of our family. Sally works with a rescue group called Second Chance, and we went down to possibly adopt a cute little girl dog, Fiona that I was hoping would get along with Truman, the basset hound that I had adopted about ten weeks earlier.

When we arrived a little black lab mix puppy, named Black Bart, attached himself to Truman and nothing we could do would separate them.  So instead of getting a little girl I adopted another boy whose name we changed from Bart to Jefferson.

Truman and Jeffie were only about 6 weeks apart in age and from the minute they met they were best friends and brothers.  And being part lab, (Jeffie was a bassador-basset/lab mix) he was a typical chewer.  He ate a wing chair, an ottoman, two rugs, a brand new sofa, and multiple shoes, etc. during the first four years of his life.  Then it was like a switch was thrown and he became the perfect dog.

I always say that everyone who has dogs gets to enjoy one or two really special “soul” puppies in their lifetime.  Jeffie was mine.  We learned that he could predict the migraine headaches that I suffered and let me know when to take my meds.  And he was just especially sweet. 

When we adopted an adorable little Cairn Terrier, Eleanor Roosevelt, better know as Rosie, she was scared of everything as she had been in a puppymill for the first seven years of her life.  It was Jeffie that began teaching her how to play.  He really rehabilitated her and helped her learn to enjoy life and her humans.

Jeffie was special that way.

Jeffie was an extra special boy; one that I will always love.  We lost him when he was just seven years old to cancer.  It happened very fast and we mourned for a long time. 

You may notice that my current Jed looks very much like Jeffie.  It’s the reason we have Jed.  I saw Jed’s photo on Petfinder and a day or two later I was driving to Ohio in a snow storm to pick him up.  And while I try not to compare the two, after several years Jed is turning out to be just as sweet as Jeffie was.  We miss you Jeffie….and thanks readers for allowing me to reminisce about my sweet boy.

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Bart

Posted in Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , on March 1, 2012| 2 Comments »

Bart, acrylic on canvas, 12″x12″.  Commissioned painting.

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Cochise

Posted in Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

This is Cochise.  He is a beautiful Rottweiler that I got to meet recently.  I had actually met him and his sister, Cheyenne, as pups.  But now that he is grown and well over 100 pounds he’s a lot of dog when he jumps up to hug you!

These beautiful babies belong to Betty and Steve who commissioned their paintings.  You can see Cheyenne here.

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