I am Elizabeth B Martin and I paint pet portraits. I am offering an individual pet portrait in the silent auction of the Wag Hotel Howloween party TOMORROW, October 26th. 

I love painting people's pets and here are a few samples.

Please come and check out my pet portraits and bid! The proceeds will go to the San Francisco Animal Care & Control and some of my other favorite charities!

I am Elizabeth B Martin and I paint pet portraits. I am going to participate in the silent auction of the Wag Hotels Howloween party on October 26th in San Francisco. To entice you to bid, I am showing you a portrait of Rocket who is my dog’s best friend.

Please come and check out my work. I am offering an individual pet portrait in the silent auction. The proceeds will go to the San Francisco Animal Care & Control and some of my other favorite charities!

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It is Halloween and the perfect time for witches and cats! Please get in the mood and come to my HALLOWEEN art and craft event at the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library. It will be TODAY, October 19th at 4:00 PM, 850 Columbus Ave., San Francisco.

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There will be the usual drawings to be colored in by water soluble crayons and delightful things to stick everywhere! I will also have colored felt for cutting out if little fingers are up to it.

This is a portrait of my dog Henry. As you can see he is most dapper. The way I achieved the fixed concentrated look was to have someone behind me with a bag of kibble while I took his photo!

I will contribute to the silent auction at the Wag Hotel Howl-o-ween Party on October 26th in San Francisco. Please come and bid so I can paint your pet. All the money raised will go to my favorite charities. See more of my pet portraits here.

This is a portrait of Jazz, a most affectionate havanese. He of course runs his house and is adored by everyone. I had fun making his black eyes visible against his black hair.

I will contribute to the silent auction at the Wag Hotel Howl-o-ween Party on October 26th in San Francisco. Please come and bid so I can paint your pet! All the money raised will go to my favorite charities.

I have painted pet portraits for years and recently decided to do it professionally. This new direction has been so enjoyable, I have devoted more and more time to pet portraits, which you will also see in my future posts. I hope you enjoy following the progress of my new endeavor. Please contact me for a pet portrait and tell a friend! Check out my gallery on my pet portraits page!

This is a portrait of my yorkie Henry and his best friend Rocket who is a havanese. When puppies, they romped and played all day long and of course had sleep overs! See more of my pet portraits here.

I am going to participate in the silent auction at the Wag Hotel Howl-o-ween Party on October 26th in San Francisco. Please come and bid so I can paint your pet. All the money raised will go to my favorite charities.

This is a portrait of Annie and she is more soulful than smiley. I was mesmerized by her deep King Charles penetrating eyes.

I am going to participate in the silent auction at the Wag Hotel Howl-o-ween Party on October 26th in San Francisco. Please come and bid so I can paint your pet. All the money raised will go to my favorite charities.

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These fun images are from my after school event at TelHi for 2nd through 5th graders. In spite of having a full day before, the children managed to rally. I had them color, write in the speech bubbles and doodle in the monster. Once they had finished, we made paper planes and flew them. Of course one ended in the radiator! It was all over in a jiffy and they ran off for their snack—such fun. Check out more images from TelHi here.

This book is endlessly charming and amusing. It will definitely get the attention of young children who have all been inspired to make mud pies!

This is a new edition of MUD BOOK: HOW TO MAKE PIES AND CAKES was originally written in the mid-1950s by legendary avant-garde composer John Cage and artist Lois Long. According to the publisher, "Mud Book is a unique hybrid of art book, unconventional cookbook, and inspiration for young makers." Clever and so original.

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I never get over how creative children are. These are some results from my ANIMAL HEADS event at the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library. They colored my permanent ink drawings with water soluble crayons and then stuck on all and everything. I especially like the cow’s do, with sticking up yarn and flowers! See more images from my events on my Art and Craft Projects page!

I can't believe how much fun we all had at my ANIMAL HEADS Art and Craft event at the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Everyone was given permanent ink drawings to color with water soluble crayons and then go mad with sticking on crazy stuff.

During my events, my favorite results come from Preschoolers when adults leave them to let their creativity run wild. I don’t think any panda has ever looked better! See more images from my Art and Craft Library events here!

Before the Animal Faces Art With Elizabeth Event

Kids At The Library Coloring

Fun Elephant By One of the Children

Boy With His Art Piece

It is September and I have started back up with my events at the North Beach Branch of the San Francisco Public Library. I provided drawings of animal heads in permanent ink and the children colored with water soluble crayons, sloshed water about and stuck on a million things.

I had forgotten how much fun it is seeing the children fully engaged. The expression on the small boy’s face while creating a sort of mud pie made it all worthwhile. See my future library events on my Calendar page.

TODAY is September 21st—the day for ART WITH ELIZABETH at the San Francisco Public Library, North Beach Branch at 4:00 PM! We are doing an ANIMAL FACES ART AND CRAFT PROJECT. You are all welcome to come and join us. The North Beach library is located at 850 Columbus Ave., San Francisco.

NIKO DRAWS A FEELING is an inspiring book for children who love to draw and capture their thoughts and the world around them.

Niko draws everything in his world but in his own way, and loves the feeling when he succeeds. He sees things differently from other people, such as drawing the ring-a-ling of an ice cream truck as opposed to the truck itself. His friends don’t always know what to make of his drawings, but he knows when he has succeeded in his aim and is on to the next drawing to try and recapture the exhilarating feeling. 

This book is a wonderful inspiration to let loose and paint.

Please, everyone come to my ANIMAL FACES art and craft event at the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library this Thursday. The fun will begin September 21st at 4:00 PM.  It will involve easy large drawings to be colored with water soluble crayons. After that, the best part, there will be millions of fun things to stick on. I am following the children’s example and coloring everything any color I choose. I have done examples of animals eating grass and leaves but ran into trouble with the lion. I could hardly show him chomping on bambi! See my other fall events on my Events page.

Hurray! It is back to school time and my first fall library event will be at the North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library on September 21st at 4:00 PM! Please everyone come and join in the fun. It will involve easy large drawings to be colored with water soluble crayons. After that, the best part, there will be millions of fun things to stick on. I am following the children’s example and coloring everything any color I choose. Too much fun! See more upcoming events on my Events page.

This the final version of a learn-to-draw cartoon page for my event today at TelHi's after school program. I will give the 2nd through 5th graders a choice of a cartoon / doodle or this how-to-draw Gussie Goose page. I have already posted the two page cartoon / doodle, which you can find on my Cartooning page along with Gussie Goose as FREE downloadables! 

Rosemary Wells has written more than 130 books. I chose the board book MAX’S BEDTIME because the cover has one of the most endearing expressions ever, as does Max's bunny-sort-of-bear. Wells said: "Simple incidents from childhood are universal. The dynamics between older and younger siblings are common to all families.”

Her dogs, west highland terriers, Lucy and Snowy, worked their way into her drawings in expression and body position. I bet one of them was the inspiration for the expression on Max’s face. Can’t you just see it?

The second image is of Max unable to sleep. Again it is utterly perfect!

Among her many books are:
RUBY'S BEAUTY SHOP
MAX'S CHRISTMAS
BUNNY PART
MAX'S CHOCOLATE CHICKEN
BUNNY CAKES

This doodle / cartoon is for my September event at TelHi as part of their after school program. The children will be 2nd graders through 5th, and all will get a silly two page cartoon to color and to write in the bubbles. On the second page, they will get to doodle the suggested character and make it their version of the monster!

You can find FREE downloadables of all my cartoons on my Cartooning page.