Christmas Rudolph Reindeer Cleverpup art

I woke up this morning and looked at my weather station display on the kitchen counter. It read minus 4 degrees and that's when I looked out the window to see a little bird huddling on the feeder outside. The bird was a hardy little house finch and after a few more seeds, he flew off happily through the trees. Montana birds are tough little guys surviving though the long winters here. Long winters mean lots of time to paint too!
I have some new paintings up on ebay today. Original miniatures with a hand painted easel for easy display.


This fellow seems familiar!

















This guy is blushing from all the attention!














No one can forget Santas Helper!

Christmas time is right around the corner

Poodles Caroling Art Tile

Jack Russell and Snowman Ornament

Poodles Caroling Ornament

Before you know Christmas time will be upon us. This year I have some very cute ornaments and art tiles up on ebay.
Cleverpup on ebay

Happy Thanksgiving

Welcome Back

Things are up and running again here at my Cleverpup Art news blog.
I had to take some time off and get pointed in the right direction. Pointed all the way to Montana in fact. That's where we ended up after selling our home in Washington state. Now that we are semi settled, its time to start creating art getting back into the swing of things.

New projects are on the horizon and we are just getting started.

Thanks for your patience!

Nice Catch

This is a watercolor I did of a border collie so excited about catching his flying Frisbee he ends up jumping a little too high.

Margarita Chihuahua print

I decided to take a little look back at some of my favorite art prints and paintings I've done .


Here's a happy little chihuahua sipping on her favorite beverage.
I do have the print in my ebay store.

Georgia Bigfoot Big Hoax

Researcher says Bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit

ATLANTA Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it - was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature were found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape.

Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the "evidence" was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax.

First, the hair sample was burned and "melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair," Kulls said in the posting.

The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section." An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed - and they were found to be made of rubber.

Matt Whitton, an officer who has been on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Rick Dyer, a former Georgia corrections officer, announced the find in early July on YouTube videos and a Web site.

"Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," Whitton said at the time.

Phone calls to Whitton and Dyer went unreturned on Tuesday. But the voicemail recording for their Bigfoot Tip Line - which proclaims they search for leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster - has been updated and announcing they're also in search of "big cats and dinosaurs. If you see any of those, give us a call."

On Tuesday, Clayton County Police Chief Jeff Turner said he has not spoken to Whitton but processed paperwork to fire him.

"Once he perpetrated a fraud, that goes into his credibility and integrity," Turner said. "He has violated the duty of a police officer."