Lots and lots of texture!

Scottish Kitten


White Tiger

Mikaela started working on the Scottish Kitten early on in 2007, not realizing all the texture which to an artist equals lots and lots of smaller brush strokes. It's very tedious work. So she wouldn't burn out from doing all that texture Miss Laurie had her alternate the kitten and other works throughout 2007. She finally finished it earlier in 2008!

One of the other works she completed was the white tiger for Lanny's office at work. We have framed it and it is quite stunning! Check out those eyes...its those eyes that she has such a gift for! What is kind of funny about the white tiger is it had just as much texture to it as the kitten but Mikaela didn't tire of doing the texture in colored pencil like she did with oil. The tiger, as you may be able to tell, is done in colored pencil on black paper.

Lucky Dog (or as we say it Dawg)

Lucky Dog is Mikaela's "cousin", the beloved dog of her Uncle Paul & Aunt Rebecca. We are all rather taken with Lucky, and none more so than his "parents". So for Christmas 2007 Mikaela painted a portrait of Lucky for Paul and Rebecca. She painted him using oil on canvas medium. The resemblence was uncanny!

Lucky wasn't all that impressed but we sure were!