Got it!

"Passageway"
12" x 24" acrylic and collage on canvas
Prints available at Imagekind.com and my Etsy shop.

Finally...I got what I wanted with this painting I've been working on. Oh god of creativity...I am very thankful today!

By the way...Imagekind is having a great holiday sale right now with 25% off of everything until midnight, November 25th. Their printing and framing quality is top notch so think about giving a beautiful art print to someone special this year.

Every year, I love reading the "Thanksgiving" quotes from elementary students in our local paper. Here are a few of them that are especially endearing...

Nathan: I am thankful for nature because trees make air.

Kai: I am thankful for my cat Juice Juice and my dog Eclipse. We like to talk by howling to each other.

Aidan: My community and I am happy of the pie.

Shelby: That God and Jesus were invented.

You can read more here...have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

A Thank You from Dexter

Dexter and Dexter

I was thrilled when I received this photo from Diane...of her handsome Dexter next to his painting. I love it when people send these to me! She also wrote a very nice blog post about it...so thank you Diane. That made my day!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Maisie and James enjoyed their turkey...and I stuffed my face with everything else. Just put some vegetarian stuffing and Uncle Fred's cranberry dish in front of me...and I'm a happy camper!

Hey, have you seen this adorable coaster set from Aunt Sadie's? I love 'em!

Have a good Monday and happy almost December!

Winter Wonderland

Here's the view we woke up to last Friday morning. I took it from our upstairs bedroom. What a beautiful blanket of white!

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend. We had a good one...hosted Thanksgiving dinner here in our new house. Since I'm a vegetarian...James was in total charge of cooking the turkey. I made roasted vegetables and everyone else brought a favorite dish. It was fantastic! Maisie was especially pleased as her papa made a very special batch of turkey-vegetable soup from the leftovers just for her. Doggie heaven.

Below is a new painting I just finished today titled, "Winter Night". It was pretty cold here over the weekend so I guess I needed to paint a nice cozy house to nest in. If it were a true "O'Neill" house though...it would have a doggie door! A house is not a home without one.:)

"Winter Night"

8" x 8" acrylic and collage on canvas

available in my Esty shop here

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Daisy"
10" x 11" acrylic on canvas

Wishing you all a wonderful Thanksgiving day!

First Snow!

Finally had our first real snow the other day! And look who was lovin' it...Maisie couldn't wait to get out and run around the yard like a little pony. I wish I could have really let her run run RUN...but she's not supposed to yet with the kennel cough. She's getting better but we need to baby her for about another week. We are having a ball with her...she is just the sweetest girl.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday! Maisie and I are heading to the airport soon to pick up my brother who will stay with us through the weekend. We're actually having our Thanksgiving dinner tonight with him.

Sorry for the lack of posting lately...and the lack of art! This little girl dog is keeping me very busy...and I'm concentrating mostly on dog portraits now until Christmas. I hope to have one to show you next week though. If I can get Maisie to come down the long flight of stairs to my studio in the basement that will help. For now...she's afraid of them, poor baby.

Have a great weekend everyone. xoxo