scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job

happy go lucky lil nipper painted in acrylic on repurposed wood bowl.

LiL Nipper Cooling Off

I collect all manner of wood plates, bowls, platters, boxes etc.
Lil Nipper Cooling Off was painted on the back of this platter in acrylic.
Simple but effective.

Nipper flying off the dock

This is a little oil painting of Nipper flying off the dock up north. He was barely a year old and already showing his love of swimming!

head & tail above water

This is one of my favourites! and one of LiL Nippers fav things to do!! S W I M!!!

jumping with stick

This was going to be a painting but after i chalked the image, i decided that i liked it just the way it is.

on the boat watercolour

Here's a watercolour version of my painting, "Nipper on the boat". I have painted, sketched this image many times. It's one of my favourites!

Nipper Moon

I have been painting Nipper's on recycled wooden bowls, platters and blocks. This is one of my favourites I call, "Nipper Moon"

on the boat

Here's a painting of Nipper on the boat done in acrylic on wood. I originally painted it in watercolour which has since sold.
This is a large piece, about 2' by 4'. This was Nipper's first summer at the lake, and he wanted nothing more than to go on the boat.

throw it now!

Here's a piece with a couple of girls and nipper. I was going to paint it, and then decided i liked the energy of the coloured pencil. Whenever we go to the beach, first thing Nipper does is find a stick, then when he gets tired of me throwing it, he finds willing participants by dropping the stick by them, and barking at it.
what a character.

swimming for the stick

Here's one of my latest, done on black chalkboard paint...of lil nipper swimming for his stick.

i've got the stick

Here's nipper standing in the water with his stick. He's happiest in the water.

spalshing away

this is an acrylic on panel I painted of Nipper at the beach, heading into the waves to get his stick.

bring back the stick

Here he is coming out of the water with his "prized" stick. LiL Nipper chooses a stick and none other will do for his current session in the lake.

splashing away

here's LiL Nip going after a stick. do you realize a day for a dog is like a week for us? i try to get him down to the beach as often as i can. he just loves it. here he is in acrylic paint on chalkboard. i've been working on "splash" paintings, really enjoy painting the water around him.