i LOVE red dots!

i finally finished the hawk piece for California Wildlife Center...phew...i cut it very close again this year! just so busy with the cat commissions and two gallery shows...and then there was my vacation!!

Hawk (c) 2012 Kathryn Hansen

i actually got some photos of saturday nites reception at the TAG Gallery in Santa Monica. i...ah...forgot to put the usb card in my camera for the gallery reception the week before...coulda kicked myself for that one! but the fabulous news is that i sold Tag O' War that evening...yay!! i am still floating from it! i don't know why...it just really makes me very happy! it feels like i am finally getting out of my own way and creating some good progress in my art career this year! i think my desires are finally superseding all my fears and resistances! but i don't want to jinx things...just am feeling very, very grateful right now!!

see the red dot to the right!! :-)

oodles of drawings to work on!

 well...i got pretty far (finished the lower right corner) but now this drawing is put on hold for awhile so i can work on this:

 this is my 6th year of donating a drawing to the California Wildlife Center for their annual auction. each year i create a portrait of one of their rescue animals...this year it's a hawk! they will be auctioning it off at their annual wild brunch fundraiser on september 16th. please check out their website for all the details!

and i have these commissions to work on: 

two sweet kitties, buttercup and lulu.

so i am drawing like a crazy woman trying to get it all done!! i may have to forgo my nightly viewing of the big bang theory!! maybe!

monday morning

silvia...working on the upper half of her face

hope everyone had a nice weekend!! mine was very productive as things are quieting down in our lives and i am getting back to my art.

the best news is that i actually finished my artist statement on saturday. remember weeks ago i said that i finally finished it...well, i scraped that and rewrote it again!! i know, i know...i'm insane, but this time i think i nailed it, and only after 10 rewrites in 3 months! not too shabby!! (smile!) and sunday morning, over french toast, fruit and tea, my wonderful friend Bev (who's an amazing writer) helped me polish and refine it. i felt so much lighter when we finished it up...it was weighing heavily on my mind.

so now i'm onto writing my bio, and you get to hear me whine on and on about getting that done...JJ! (i hope not!)

began this drawing of scout, to donate to the frederick county 4h therapeutic riding program in maryland. if any of you recall back in april, i wrote about this wonderful, dedicated group that a client of mine volunteered at.

one huge advantage to being an artist is that i get the privilege of assisting very worthy animal causes in a unique way, that goes above just donating money (altho i do that too). it makes my heart feel really, really good, in some small way to be a part of helping animals. why else would god give me this talent, if not to give as well.

scout, who apparently loves eating!!

with both of my girls sick today, mondays not off to the best of starts. but this week i hope to get silvia finished, my bio started, scout at least half way done, and keep up on my e-course...and that's just the art end of my life. my big project since the end of last week, is getting passports for the 3 of us...they don't make it easy, but i guess that's a good thing when you have children under 18.