Tracie Thompson, Artist

That's when I first remember drawing owls. I was five. My owl lived in a hollow in a big, dead tree, in the middle of a flat, open, kind...

That's what I had to do this morning. There was a huge fight next door. I lost a lot of sleep and now I do not want to do much. ...

Olive Branch , above, 14 x 18" canvas in oil paint and wax medium. This is a commission for the Mount Dora Olive Oil Company in ...

This is a pretty large canvas, 40" h x 30" w.  Based on a snapshot of my Twilight looking rather elegant, short-legged Perchero...

This is a really common thing in horse photos: the dreaded Lens Distortion. This is Honey, the Christmas Pony I'm working on today. I lo...

Annie, 8 x 10" mixed media on Rives BFK Tan paper. And I have a dilemma, which is whether to try putting a backdrop (softly drawn ...

Well, more like winter-hinting-at-spring, as it turns out; this happened mostly because I like color and wasn't content to leave thes...

Here's what's on the easel right now. Hannah, a lovely German Shepherd Dog. She is IN PROGRESS, here -- not finished, and in fact no...

I'll be helping out at Home For Life 's annual fundraiser tonight. Painting a quick, bold portrait of Audrey Hepburn on site at the ...

  The same curvature that made this wall ideal for a mural also makes it terribly difficult to photograph. I sure wish I could call in my b...

A look at the process for these latest flower studies. This is from today around 6 p.m., in the front yard of my friend Josephine Geiger. ...

Down Among the Briars , in progress. Oil paint and wax medium on canvas, 40 x 30". This began as a pattern of cracked concrete where...

The big 40 x 30" version of this is still in progress, and meanwhile, here's the 10 x 8" canvas I made as a preliminary study....