Nine Dogs

POV

Portrait of the Poet as a Wild Hare

Me

One Handy Elephant

I brushed my right hand with black acrylic paint and placed it on a sheet of watercolor paper.  Next I crooked my pinking finger, brushed with black paint and finished the trunk. Next came the ear made by dipping my thumb in the paint and rolling the print.  Finally, using red and white Conte and a pen I finished up the details.  I licked my finger and touched the ink to form the tail and to highlight the tusks.

Trapped by the Intimacy Factor

An Altered Shoe Skull Sulpture

Rhino Head

I started with chicken wire mesh and formed the Rhino head.

The next thing I did is use screen wire and stitched it on using silver floral wire.  I covered that with Elmer's wood putty.  Finally I painted it first with gesso, then acrylic paint.

Bear under a tree

This was a gift for my supervisor.

Wire cat sculpture

Mermaid with fish

Wire Tree out of floral wire

Mother holding child

Tree Climbing Child

The parent is watching, but not preventing the child from climbing the tree.  For me, this is positive, trusting, and a depiction of good parenting.  You're there to help, but you allow the child to take some risks, explore, to have his or her own successes.

Kite in a wire tree darn it.

What Was I Thinking?

Bull Terrier

 This is the picture from Facebook that I used for the photo.

Detail of Bull Terrier 

Ruby

My therapist has this wonderful dog that sits in on her sessions with clients.  Ruby is a sort of therapist.  If you are upset she will come from under the table where she naps and will get close, let hrself be loved on, and once you are better she heads back under the table and resumes her naps.  She has a sense of time, so about 5 minutes before a session is over she seems to know, and out she comes to send you off with a little of her special love.  I painted this for my shrink, who shrinks my problems, as a way to say thanks for bringing Ruby in to the healing process.  I don’t prefer realism, but I made an exception in this case.

Gourd Bowl cut, carved and painted