Watercolor birthday card for my sister Shauna.  I have no explanation for why I chose a sloth, other than they're kind of cute...in a slightly ugly way...

 

This years Birthday card for my brother, done in watercolor.

 

Lauren is on the go all the time, seemingly traveling as much as working, so her birthday card reflects my idea of her bounding from place to place with everything she needs stuffed into a backpack.

 

Three recent commissions.  The first two are done with Prismacolor, the last in watercolor.

 

   

My daughters are like polar bears.  Hiking somewhere near Lake Tahoe, they came upon one of the many small lakes hidden in the mountains, prompting them to strip down and swim in the frigid waters out to the middle, where a mini iceberg was floating, and they proceeded to sit on said ice, freezing their behinds, before jumping back into the water.  My original thought for Kristi's birthday card was to draw a penguin on an iceberg to commemorate their little adventure, but since this was in Tahoe, I decided on a beaver as though his little dam/house had frozen over, and sunshine rhymed with her age of 29.

 

 My sister, Karen, asked me to do some caricatures for Christmas presents.  Sometimes it is difficult to get good likenesses from photographs because details are usually not clear, and I really struggled and got very frustrated with these!!  Mounds of erasure shards, crumpled, tossed paper, and many spicy words later, I got as close to satisfied as I was going to get!

Her son, Brett got married this year.  He had fulfilled an LDS mission to southern India and wanted to carry that theme for his reception in Boise, and his new wife, Bailey agreed to his desire.  Indian friends of the family provided traditional clothes for the occasion, and the painting depicts what they wore.  The Golden Palace was a location that Brett had wanted to visit, but was not able, so I chose to make this the background.  

These are the aforementioned Indian friends of the family who love to dance and party, so I found some examples of traditional dance forms and costumes for their theme.

Longtime friends and neighbors who love the out of doors, kayaking being one of their favorite activities. I've done kayak pictures before, so I wanted to do something a bit different.  I thought a wet grass foraging moose in a lake coming up for air just at the right moment would be funny (and different)!

2020 will probably not go down in history as one of the better ones, but in thinking about this years

Christmas card, hoping that humanity can find a bit of light to counteract some of the darkness that

perhaps some might be feeling.  Merry Christmas and best wishes for the coming New Year.