It's about time!

Okay then, here is that finished Luka portrait, in his frame (it took a while to finally get a hold of the photo of the framed portrait, but now that I have it, here it is!)

There's some glare and/or reflection from the glass (sorry about that), but he's finished. Maybe I'll donate him to an auction... we'll see...


"Goji" - another Cat portrait...

Also another portrait for you to see: This is Linell's cat "Goji" looking up at the skies above. Linell took the wonderful photo that served as the basis for this portrait - it just begged for me to do a pastel! So of course I had to do it. I haven't yet met Goji in person, but I'm sure he must be a wonderful cat, seeing how he was such a great poser for the photo. (Of course, I know from all her work that Linell is also a great photographer as well.)

Both of these portraits were entered in this year's Clark County Fair in Vancouver, Washington back in August, but alas, neither of them won any ribbons other than "Participant" (sigh), but my teacher, Fariha, won an award - yay! Congratulations Fariha! I learned a lot from you and you deserve lots of prizes and ribbons...

4H Club Winning Cat - Luka Portrait

I love the way this portrait of Luka is turning out! He was apparently the winning cat at last year's Clark County Fair, and one of his prizes was a Pastel Pet Portrait by artist Lani Sakai - me! What do you think?

I still have to work on the background color a bit, but other than that, I think he's pretty much done.

According to his master, Luka likes to sit with one paw sticking out, so that's how he is in this portrait. Such a cute cat!