This is Bianca B., a little girl from London, Ontario who is on her way to St. Louis Missouri for surgery that will make her little life much easier...

I start with a photograph of Bianca, and make a quick sketch, and start filling i…

Portrait in Progress! Nik & Monica! I have continued to build on my original sketch, adding shading and details. This is the point where I am almost done, so I put the portrait up where I can see it along with the photo, and over the next few days check regularly to see if there is anything I w…

Here is my latest project, step by step. My subjects are Nik & Monica. The first step is is to prepare a sketch and centre it on an illustration board so that it fits nicely into an 12x16 mat. Once that has been done, I start adding the details of Monica's face and darkening her hair to the darkest hue I will be using so that I can determine how m…

gosh, I am thinking (hoping) that I am going to be busy over the next few months doing lots of gorgeous portraits. This is not just a small business for me - it is my passion! Hoping too to be able to offer the option of "sketches", which are not as finely detailed as my regular portraits, but every bit as beautiful! They have a different feel to them - a little bit looser, more artsy and tons of fun because they go much quicker! I am also thinking that I will be offering them full size on ar…