The dog days of summer are over!

After two and a half years of only drawing dogs for clients I finally received a kitty commission!! 

Cats and whiskers make an irresistible combination to draw!  I find the process of drawing them in colored pencil a completely different experience from drawing them in graphite. Altho I highly enjoy both, each medium has their own challenges! Adding/layering color into the mix on top of values and textures is certainly an adventure, sometimes in fun other times in frustration!!!

Other commissions this year:

Molly (c) 2016 July 8x10

Rossa (c) 2016 May 8x10

Teddy (c) 2016 May 6x8


Kitty drawings in my Etsy shop:

The Dog did it! (c) 2016  5x7  $155

Forty Winks (c) 2016  5x7 $155

Highlights of 2015

 ...to make an end is to make a beginning...

~T.S. Eliot~

19 Drawings:

10 Commissioned portraits (all dogs!)

8 Drawings

1 Donated drawing to California Wildlife Center

3 large commissioned paintings -that I can't show you! (sorry!)

10 Exhibitions (7 in galleries, 3 on-line)

1 monetary Merit Award for Where's Waldo in the PSA 90th Annual Juried Exhibition at White Fine Art Gallery in Montrose, CA

 

We fostered 5 kittens

Adopted 1 naughty, but very goofy puppy, Indie (Indiana Jones Lloyd Louis Hansen)

1 trip only (but it was fantastic!) to Santa Fe, New Mexico with my dear friends Julie and Bonni

I lost two very dear, sweet animals this year. 

I found Sammy on the streets by my work when he was just 6 months old. He was already blind in one eye and partially in the other, but it never stopped him from living a full life. He could be cantankerous at times, okay a lot of times but he loved to cuddle with me and could be just as sweet! 

Josie was the love of my life. We got her for half price ($25) at a run down pet shop while on vacation in Yosemite. My two girls begged me for her and it was one of the best decisions of my life to say yes! Josie and I hiked hundreds of miles every weekend and holiday. She was a true companion and followed me around as if she were my shadow. She made me laugh with her happy dance and antics! I love her more than I can say and miss her dearly, every single day since she passed on August 20th at 11.5 years old.

Cheers to the New Year! May it be a VERY memorable and creative one for you!! 

Happy 2016!!!!

Highlights of 2014!

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

30 Drawings (7 more than last year!)

7 Commissions: 

17 Drawings:

5 Animal contest drawings:

1 Donated piece to California Wildlife Center:

5 Gallery Shows (2 more than last year!):

1 ACAG Art Show:

Was juried into the Pasadena Society of Artists and became the secretary for Angeles Crest Art Guild:

3 sets of foster kitties:

Top:Dakota, Austin & Alaska, Bottom left: Daryl & Beth, Bottom right: Daisy (she lost all her babies to upper respiratory disease)

3 Trips:

Top:My nephews graduation from UT Austin with the whole family, Bottom left: San Luis Obispo, CA with girlfriends, D'Ann and Julie, Bottom left: Wisconsin with my niece Cassi, sisters Carolyn and Sue

Daughter Emily's High School Graduation: 

24 Books:

Wishing you a Happy New Year full of surprises, magic and happiness!!

♥Kathryn

All Done~ recently completed drawings up for sale!!

I recently realized that I show you so many beginnings to my work but never show you the completed pieces here on my blog, only on Facebook do I ever seem to post the final piece! What the heck!!!

So here are some completed works of late. If you are interested in any of these pieces you can find the prints for sale on Fine Art America or for the original piece contact me directly!

Rest Stop   9x6.5  sold

Piercing Glare   8.5x6.5    $459.00

Hushed Majesty  10x6.5   $375.00

Eye Spy   5x7   $75.00

One Step Ahead   6.25x10.5   $539.00

**to see oodles of more drawings go to Fine Art America**

day 7 of the New Year!

Lily Marie from my dog competition on Facebook

my new year is starting off with a bang in many ways...an art show at topanga canyon art gallery, new drawings, two commissions, 3 new foster kittens, and my youngest daughter just got her license! yay! such wonderful things makes me temporarily forget about all the endless car repairs on both my oldest daughters ancient ford and my honda! yikes...car repairs do add up into the thousands, don't they?!

Cantik, my newest commission

but the bills will get paid and forgotten, the good stuff sticks and celebrated! 

my newest drawing Percy

this is Meatloaf, 1 of 3 new foster kittens

hope you have lots to celebrate too in the new year!!

highlights of 2013 in pictures

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” 

~Brad Paisley~

23 drawings:
7 commissions

1 donation to California Wildlife Center in Malibu

16 drawings

published in Bark magazine

4 gallery shows

3 very distinctive and memorable trips to Joshua Tree with friends and family

fostered 5 adorable kittens

many fun hikes with my dog Josie and daughter Emily

a championship win in spring soccer and a near win at the championship game for the fall season (the opposing team scored in the last 5 minutes 0-1)

now that's quite a year!! 

Wishing you the most awesome, magical, beautiful, abundant and healthy New Year ever!!

another commission completed!!

Moo (c) Kathryn Hansen  8x10 2013 

i finished drawing Moo late last night after an exciting but disappointing soccer game. altho it was very chilly at the sports complex after the sun set, it was a very heated game, with lost tempers, shoving, and shouting. The Wazowskies lost 4-8...and they were not happy about it...altho they did enjoy their snacks afterwards!

this is a new piece started last week, drawn in between two commissions. i figured The King needed a queen, cuz you know men can't live without us ladies!! plus i want to enter the royal pair in an upcoming gallery show...so she needs to be done by beginning of November!

i won't be able to show you my next commission until it's fully completed, just in case the client of my client sees it. altho i think the odds of that happening are greater than me winning the lottery...but the internet can be a small world at times, so i can't take the chance! so instead here's an adorable shot of Maddie, one of our foster kittens...growing by leaps and bounds!!