Nebraska Wildlife Rehab

Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, Inc. is a non-profit organization of professional wildlife rehabilitators working under permits from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Every sale helps!

10% of all sales of my general wildlife artwork
will be donated to helping Nebraska’s Wildlife.

Wildlife Artwork: Nebraska Wildlife Rehab Inc.

Raptor Artwork: Raptor Conservation Alliance.

50% of all sales of my Raptors of the Refuge series

will be donated to: Fontenelle Forest

Please visit their sites and donate if you can.

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Raptor Conservation Alliance

Raptor Conservation Alliance is licensed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to handle raptors, and have a 45-year history under Raptor Recovery Nebraska.

Since childhood I've had a passion for nature, wildlife and creating art.
Here you can see my passions collide!

My Galleries

Wildlife Portfolio

Raptors of the Refuge

A Few Samples of My Mediums

Graphite

Graphite Drawing "Incoming"

Colored Pencil

Colored Pencil "Mandarin Duck"

Charcoal

Charcoal Drawing "Star Gazing"

Watercolor

Watercolor Painting "Rusty"

Ink

Ink Drawing "Looking Back"

Pastel

Pastel "Queen of the Ocean"

Inktense

Inktense Painting "Silent Assassin"

Acrylic

Acrylic Painting: "Chinook"

A Little Inspiration

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” – Bob Ross

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.” – Albert Einstein

“Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever

“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” – George Sand

“Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” – Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.” – Leo Tolstoy

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

“Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything you are willing to practice, you can do.” – Bob Ross.

“A picture is a poem without words” – Horace

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? 10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”

-Job 12:7-10 New International Version Bible

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Scribbles

New Design and Updates 2019

by Cathleen | Apr 1, 2019 | General Art

It's April first, but it's no joke today. Today I officially go live with my new website design and store! I am excited with this new take on the original version of my website and I've worked hard all through the month of March creating it. Why now? The reason I...

Crickets, Critiques, Motivation

by Cathleen | Jan 11, 2017 | Artist Life, General Art

Today we’re going to explore three things that influence you as an artist.As artists we need to be a bit “thick skinned.” The problem with that is most artists are very sensitive people, especially when it comes to our artwork. When I say “thick skinned,” it’s not...

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