Art by Anna Reagan

Portrait number five of my Series six painting challenge! ✨️🎨
Just one more girl left now to bring to life..

I've had a new little assistant at home the past few weeks that I thought I should introduce.. Meet Stella, a 4 year old little 7.5 lb girl with a big personality!

I adopted her from C.A.R.E. animal shelter and while it has been an adjustment for her in her new home, this past month she has settled in very well and seems to be happy! 😊 As per typical cat, she loves to try her best to get into, or lay on top of whatever it is I'm working on, paints included 😅

Even with the added responsibility, and little bit of chaos she's added, life has felt better having a furry companion around again. ❤️

Happy Friday friends ☺️

I was pretty pleased with how this cat painting for a special family member turned out. I'll be varnishing it over the weekend and shipping her off where I hope she'll bring peace and comfort during a hard and confusing time of life.

Our pets can bring us such comfort by their unwavering love and devotion, lack of judgments or biases, and just how they live every day appreciating the moment. I'm always so honored to get to capture a moment in time of them for an owner to cherish forever. ❤️

And P.S.-this cats name is Lana. IYKYK, for me ☺️

Pretty little watercolor of donkeys in a sunset pasture, commissioned for a friend 💕✨️

Here's a little process of my painting from last week if anyone is curious... 👀

Started out just throwing some paint down in messy lines and drips.
Overlayed my reference photo over a photo of the background to map out my points of reference for the rough sketch.
Layed down the darkest value points, then added the other colors I saw in the face from darker to lightest trying not to overblend and letting some of the colors drip.
Every color I used throughout I worked into the background where I intuitively felt it should go.

Come back tomorrow to see the reveal of my second painting in this series!
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Got the chance to attend another one of mural meetups! Had a great time meeting and working alongside new artist friends and learning more about painting large scale and some spray paint techniques! Will be practicing that more soon for sure😊
Its been a hard past few months for me with multiple losses, and this was just what I needed. Feeling grateful, and excited and ready to keep creating and see what I can make happen 🎨✨️💕

Some process photos of my last completed painting 🎨✨️
From the initial sketch on the blank canvas, to the pink underpainting-little Miss's and her dad's favorite color💕- to blocking in the background, to spending countless hours getting her sweet face just right, then finishing it up with the two beautiful pups. Each painting is always a process, its always fun to look back and see it come together!

The finished commission piece ❤️✨️🎨
I enjoyed the challenge of painting this sweet portrait for a wonderful family! I will share some in process photos of it soon, in a separate post.

Been sorting through old memories, and came across this mother's day book I made for my mom in school 30 years ago. I've had the privilege of being by her side the last week, while she's been in very bad declining health, and sadly we lost her from this world yesterday 💔
She was the best mom I could have asked for, and at the age when I made this was certainly my entire world. I'm glad she's no longer struggling, but it is such a deep feeling of loss you just can't prepare for. No one will ever love you like your mom, and I surely never doubted the amount of love she had for me.
I know she's having fun with all of her old friends, family and pets that had gone before her, and resting in absolute peace. I will miss her, and love her always.

I'm very honored I had the opportunity to assist on this massive mural last week in Carthage! I did all of the leaves and greenery on the lower portion, and got to learn some spray can techniques. Go check out page to see the beautiful finished results! She absolutely nailed it, and is such a great and generous mentor to learn from.

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