This is a portrait of my aunt's dog Chewy. I painted him a tad chubbier than he really is, but he mostly look like that. Chewy is a pomeranian. I took this as a gift to my aunt when I stayed with her on a visit to San Jose.

I always like the way mushrooms look, and having a mushroom as a shelter just seems to make sense. This is hopefully the first of many little paintings featuring a ferret taking shelter under some edible mushroom.

The ferret here is loosely based on a photo of Birch. I wanted to finish it in time for the symposium and I had a deadline for my independent study, so I did not have enough time to make the ferret look like Birch. I'm not unhappy with the result, given the short amount of time I had to finish it. I end up carrying it on the plane to Las Vegas because the painting hasn't quite dried yet! I'm really happy with the feedback I got at the symposium, and I hope to do more paintings for SOS in the future.

This is supposed to be Sand standing under a clouded agaric mushroom. I got a bit of feedback from Art on this painting, there are a few things wrong with it. The main problem is that the foreground isn't consistently out of focus. I didn't have time to fix it since I finished it the week Dr. Wellehan was going to end his internship at Guelph. He did a lot for my ferrets, so I hope he enjoys this little memento.

This is supposed to be Sabre standing under some bleeding hearts. I found out a week before he left that Dr. Boutette's intership was ending, so I didn't have a lot of time to get the painting right. Sabre was Dr. Boutette's favourite ferret patient.