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Commissioned Wedding Portrait, 60 years later
Every now and then someone asks the impossible. Can you paint me a picture from this old black and white photo? Most of the time, there is plenty of resolution in those old photos, so it isn’t too hard to do. but this is what I had to work with: I agonized over this one,…
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From Finland
I cannot remember how I got to know this lovely Finnish lady. We were both learning Italian, and we visited on the internet. Then when Facebook became popular, I found her there too and we played scrabble in Italian together, she was one of the few patient enough to do so with me because neither…
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Bobcat – our small North American Wildcat
Bobcats, nocturnal hunters, can be found in almost every state of the union, but most people have never seen one, except maybe in a zoo. They inhabit the borderlands, hunting small prey like mice, squirrels, possums and rabbits. Unlike the Lynx, the other small North American wild cat, which will only hunt rabbit, the bobcat…
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Baudelia – portrait of my neighbor
People that are into cars are always seeing cars that they like, people who are into dogs are always running into fun dogs. Well, what I love are faces, and when I saw this woman for the first time, I knew I had to paint her. She speaks very little English, being a native of…
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Made with Extra Love
Kent Peterson, one of my favorite people in the blogging world AND one of my favorite people in the bicycling world asked me to illustrate one of his stories. He said this particular story reminded him of Donald and me. I was astonished until I read it; and cried all the way through it. I…
Mimi Torchia Boothby
a gallery of paintings