On Tuesday, Pyar and I went to Hollywood and Beverly Hills to distribute my postcards for www.kittypuppytown.com.  Thinking I had my elevator pitch down, I go to all the spots along our route. I find that most of the dog boutiques, shops and day spas we visited already have a kind of resident artist!  The businesses feature photographs and paintings of dogs and cats beautifully displayed and inspirational.  Brilliant idea, really. Now, just to find the one that needs ME as their go to pet portrait artist!   Shifting gears, changing perspective is an everyday task.  My drawings and thus paintings shift with each visit I make at the easel. I am constantly learning, and learning to shift.

Jack is squirrelley in a shifty way, until he gets his spot just right for a nap.  I try to capture his form and a little likeness during his nap time, it seems that he knows when I am drawing him, he becomes the pinnacle model.  Just like a model from a drawing class, he shifts every 30 seconds, then stays up to a minute, then five minutes and finally, a nap!  Here are a few attempts.