Another Chiaroscuro Critter

Bobcat

Chiaroscuro Linocut 5"X7"

2016

Tonka

Tonka

5" X 7" colored pen-and-ink drawing

2016

"Thank you again for doing such a beautiful job on Tonka's portrait. Our friends John and Celeste were very touched. They absoutely love it.

They have a whole bunch of cats, so maybe they'll decide to commission a series!"

~Michael and Marleen

Fairfax, California

Misty

Misty

8" X 10" pen-and-ink drawing

2016

"Thank you so much for the portrait of Misty. It's PERFECT. I cannot wait for my mom to see it--she's going to fall in love!! You are so talented...I'm continually amazed at all your work.'

~Kristin
Fairway, Kansas

My Woodcuts Go International!

"I am really captured by your image of the donkey.

It just totally captures the donkey character and charm."

--Linda Jay, Festival Organizer

Recently two of my woodblock prints appeared in international advertising! My donkey traveled to Victoria, AUSTRALIA, and my boar is in Quebec, CANADA.

Massimo

Massimo

White-line woodblock print

7x5 on 11x9 paper

I like the fact that this ginger Tom (who adopted us during our time in Brunswick, Georgia) has more that one orientation. Which one do you like best?

Geronimo X's 2!

Geronimo!

White-line woodblock print

4x6 on 7x9 paper

2015

Geronimo II!

White-line woodblock print

4x6 on 7x9 paper

2015

Still More White-line Woodblock Prints

Caroline's Fruit Bowl

Jake I

Jake II

Horsepower Farm Collaboration

"Hitching Up"

Paul Birdsall and his Horsepower

10" X 8" colored pen-and-ink

2014

"In a Pig's Eyes"

Horsepower Farm Piglet

5" X 7" colored pen-and-ink

2014

"Tailfeathers"

Horsepower Farm Rooster

5" X 7" colored pen-and-ink

2014

"Goldilocks"

Horsepower Farm Ewe

7" X 5" colored pen-and-ink

2014

I collaborated with Horsepower Farm in Penobscot, Maine, this year as part of the Reversing Falls Sanctuary Farm/Arts Exchange (http://www.reversingfalls.org/farmarts-exchange-2014). 

Paul, Andy, and Donna Birdsall of Horsepower Farm (http://www.uniquemainefarms.com/uniquemainefarms.com/Horsepower_Farm.html) 

were great to work with and to get to know. 

There was a fabulous exhibit of farm art at the Sanctuary last August.

Coyote Art

Coyote Collage 

mixed media

2014

Coyote Eyes

8" X 10" colored pen-and-ink

2014 

8" 

Coyote

8" X 10" colored pen-and-ink

2013

Coyotes

They hug the margins of fields,

slip into creases between trees,

glide across gravel roads at dawn or dusk,

bellies close to the ground, tails

trailing. We hardly know they are here, think

all of this is ours – the property, the shorefront,

the view – until moonless nights

when a choir of coyotes sings to the stars

and one paces the length of our driveway

leaving tracks in the snow and scat

where the dog and I are sure to find it.

Leslie Moore

I've been doing coyote art work and poetry for the last couple of years, encouraged by Geri Vistein, a Maine conservation biologist (www.coyotelivesinmaine.com) who is on a one-woman crusade to save coyotes from human predation. She gives fascinating talks all over the state and she has arrangeda series of coyote art exhibits, which have included my coyote art work. Currently "Coyote Connections" is hanging in the University of New England Art Gallery (www.une.edu/artgallery/exhibitions).

Two More PenPets Dogs for 2014

Lulu

Leonberger

5" X 7" colored pen-and-ink

2014

Roscoe

German short-haired pointer

10" X 8" colored pen-and-ink

2014

Too Cool Cats

Jack

5" X 7" colored pen and ink

2013

Little Man

7" X 5" pen and ink

2013

Casey and Hans

Casey and Hans

Italian greyhound and Doberman

10" X 8" colored pen and ink

2013

Angus, Sheshie, and Buck

Sheshie

Angus and Buck

8" X 10" pen-and-ink drawing

2013

It was a dark and stormy night, and three black cats were on the prowl . . .

Georgia

Georgia

5" X 7" colored pen and ink

2012

Georgia is a "found" dog. My nephew Mark found her in the wilds of -- Guess where? -- Georgia. She's a German short-haired pointer, chocolate brown with a white star on her chest. She may have been a bird dog in another life. Now she's a family dog and a star to those who love her.