Goodbye to Hanna

Today Hanna went to be with Gus and the Lord.

She would have been 12 years old on November 5.

She was a beautiful, sweet soul, and a great source of comfort, love,

and companionship for Dan and me.

We will miss her terribly. I will miss her presence on the patio

while I painted. I will miss the warmth of her big beautiful head

to hug and kiss. I will miss her excited , expectant search through the

grocery bags on shopping day to see what mommy brought home for her.

I will miss her warmth on the bed sleeping next to me. And the way she wanted to share whatever I was eating. Loved Peanut Butter!!

Goodbye, my dear baby girl....

"What?....WHAT?? 12x16" on Creative Edge canvas

A photo of this painting was on my post on April 3rd, before I had it completely finished. It has been finished and ready to sell for a few weeks, but I have been so busy obsessing over my unfinished paintings of Gus and Hanna (there are 4, in fact) that I am only now putting it on eBay. It is still one of my favorites.

This week has also been a stresser, because our Hanna (11-1/2 years old) has been under the weather. I'll soon post pictures of the paintings of her and Gus that I am working on.

Frustrations!

Well, I've spent the last week working steadily on a fairly large painting of my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Gus and Hanna. (Gus passed away last August.) It's a 22x28" Convexo canvas. I paint for several hours, and if I haven't already been wiping off my work every couple of hours, I end up wiping it all off at the end of the day. I just can't seem to get it the way I want to, and therefore I have no photos of my work today. Instead, I am posting a picture of Gus and Hanna taken in 1998. Gus was 3 and Hanna was only a couple of months old. Gus adored his half-sister from the very beginning. And Hanna always stuck close to him. He was her Best Buddy. This is one of my favorite photos in the whole wide world! And they are the inspiration for most of my art. It's their sweetness, noble character, and loving, beautiful souls that I try to capture in every animal I paint.