Vineyard background

I  just finished a great custom background and banner for an Aussie lawyer. Her blog, unfortunately, is not public, but here's a pic of what we did:

While playing around with some ideas, I also came up with this one that I really liked, so I'm offering it for one of my free backgrounds.

This one really makes me antsy for summer. I'm so tired of cold, windy, rainy and snowy!

And Now For Something Completely Different

Well, okay, not "completely"...it's still art stuff.

I thought I'd share a little project I did for the lovely lady blogger over at Under the Roof of a Great House.
She wanted a portrait for her younger daughter's birthday, so working from a photo she sent me:

It was fun and challenging all at the same time (getting faces to actually look like a "real" somebody is hard!), but she had great input and eventually we got to this:

I hope she likes it, and that she had a really happy birthday!