Artwork > PENPETS

PenPets is going into semi-retirement this year to give me more time to concentrate on making prints, writing poems, and helping to run the Local Color Gallery in Belfast, Maine. I’ve been drawing commissioned PenPets portraits in pen-and-ink since the 1990’s—25 years, 500 or so critters, mostly dogs, some cats, and the occasional hamster, ferret, love bird, horse, sheep, and goat. I’ll still do portraits for family, friends, and faithful clients, but I’m not going to seek out new business. Here is a compendium of PenPets I’ve drawn over the years, starting with Archie, a dapper cat, in 2023 and going all the way back to Jackie & Rose, my sheep, in 1991. (Nothing for 2002 or 2003 when I was teaching in Turkey.) I’ve chosen one portrait per year and, believe me, the choices weren’t easy! It’s fun to see how my drawings have evolved.

Archie, 2023
Colored Pen & Ink
Aster, 2022
Colored Pen & Ink
Harold & Rosie, 2021
Colored Pen & Ink
Francis Ingocnito, 2020
Colored Pen & Ink
Moogi, 2015
Colored Pen & Ink
Hitching Up, 2014
Colored Pen & Ink
Tre & Zee, 2013
Colored Pen & Ink
Panda, 2012
Colored Pen & Ink
Missy, 2011
Colored Pen & Ink
Moose, 2009
Pen & Ink
Emma 2006
Pen & Ink
Rosie, 2005
Pen & Ink
El Zoro, 2004
Pen & Ink
Mystery Boxer
Pen & Ink
Kiva, 1999
Pen & Ink
Smudge, 1998
Pen & Ink
Spike, 1997
Pen & Ink
Merlin, 1995
Pen & Ink
Harriet, 1994
Pen & Ink