Because of the disruption at home, I've stayed in seven different places in the past month. Drawing is the thread I've followed from place to place.Continue Reading

I put the finishing touches on Rumble’s portrait this week. I felt more joyful and free creating this work than anything I’ve yet done. Tiny, intuitive sparks bypassed my brain and reached my hand throughout the process, keeping stuckness at bay. I know it won’t always be this way, and I’m deeply grateful when I...Continue Reading

I just finished my first big commission, and as you can see, she’s not a pigeon. Adorable and very round, Mary Jane is a fox squirrel currently in the care of Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue. When Mary Jane’s rehabber, Janet, asked if I could make a portrait of a beloved rescue squirrel, I was honored....Continue Reading

Alfred is an eight-year-old king pigeon hen—yes, Alfred is very much a girl—who I long admired from afar. She came to Palomacy with two other baby pigeons, all of them found hiding under a bush in a park. For several years, Alfred and her former husbird, Pirate, were a bit Instagram-famous. I was not the...Continue Reading

Shortly after I met my husband, he discovered a trick to distract me if I was upset about something. He’d say, “Look at the bird!” Of course, this only worked when a bird was around, but it did work, and we were around birds pretty often.  He had been doing this for a while before...Continue Reading

When beloved foster bird Speckle passed away last fall, Nicole and Chris rushed her body to the Veterinary Medical Hospital at U.C. Davis for postmortem testing. Because concerning symptoms had appeared in their flock, they shouldered their sadness and wasted no time.  Speckle was a beautiful girl rescued hungry and stray in a small community...Continue Reading