I think I've found my niche in the art world. Michaelangelo painted ceilings. Andy Warhol painted soup cans. I paint animals. Mostly dogs and cats with a bird or two thrown in here and there.
My newest art class at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens is taught by a wonderful artist named Mai Yap, who is determined to get me to slow down when I paint. This session I am dutifully trying to master the art of going slow, paying attention to details, stop turning out three canvases to everyone else in the class's one. I marvel at my very talented classmates ability to spend weeks on perfecting one leaf. As my friend Paul likes to say, "Patience is not Joan's strong suit."
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| Max Binder |
Last week my niece Vicki called me with a sob in her voice that her beloved dog, Max, had just passed away and would I paint his portrait for her and her husband Larry. Max's photo arrived via e-mail and I started sketching right away. With class coming on Thursday, I knew I would have to tell Mai that patience will have to wait for a week. I've got to paint Max. And paint I did, with my classmates marveling once again that I started and finished in the 3 hour session.
Below are just a few of my "animal kingdom". What can I tell you. I can't help it. I love animals.
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| Louie Ostrin |
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| Apollo Sotelo |
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| Leo Pantine-Parrish |
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| J.W. Rosenblatt |
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| Layla Anker |
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| Newman |
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| Jake & Zoey Anker |
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| Punim |
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| Charcoal of Bodhi Ostrin |
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| The Anhinga |
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| Max Ceglia (done with palette knife) |
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| Wasabi Spector (done with a palate knife) |
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