Fat Old Mule

The original is a 1" x 1" drawing in a church program dated September 5, 2004.

Heaven is Right Here!

"Heaven is right here!"  Is the cowboy thinking that about his horse? Or is the horse thinking that about his cowboy? Or is Pamela thinking that about this guy she dreamed up?

Come Ye Children

This face mesmerizes me.  What is she staring at?  What is she thinking?

Note:  This was drawn on May 6, 2007 on the back of the Franklin Tennessee Stake Conference program.

Spring

Pamela started this drawing from the bottom, with the flowers.  It started out looking like Spring and evolved into something much more.  This would make such a fun mural in a child's room!

Extreme Mohawk

Here Kitty Kitty

Pamela drew this cat a couple of weeks ago on the back of a church program.  I'm a dog person, but could definitely convert to cats if I could find one that looked like this.

Reptile

Pamela loves this guy.  She drew him on the back of an envelope a couple of weeks ago.  And look, it's signed!

Rabbits

When I asked Pamela if she called these bunnies, rabbits, or hares, this is what she told me:

They are rabbits. I roomed with a house-rabbit when I lived in Monterey. She was quite the personality, and WAY smarter than people think likely. People think prey animals are stupid, but these critters avoid extinction not just because they are fast and they reproduce like crazy. They avoid extinction 'cause they can outsmart just about anything. I could tell you stories!

By the way, do you know what the difference is between rabbits and hares? Rabbits are born pink and naked and embryonic-looking, like rats and mice and hamsters and squirrels. Hares are born finished, coated with fur, complete with open eyes and sprouted teeth, like guinea pigs. So, of course hares have a much longer gestation period. Neither are rodents though; they're lagomorphs, a much smaller order that differs from rodents in that they have fully-furred feet and a double row of incisors.

I'm not so sophisticated - stuff like this comes to mind when I think of rabbits.

Darryl

Meet Darryl.  It seems like he should be scary, but he's not.  Maybe it's his child-like expression or his chubby toes or his nakedness that makes one feel compassion rather than fear.

Green-eyed Girl

I bet you'll lose if you have a staring contest with this green-eyed girl!  Aren't her eyes hypnotic?

The Blue Stallion

Otters

Once upon a time Pamela made these cute little guys into stamps.  She hand cut the stamps (with her favorite German-made cuticle scissors) out of half-inch thick black foam rubber that was designed to line tool boxes.  Sadly, she can no longer find that foam rubber.  Anyway, when she lived in Monterrey, CA, she and a business partner painted and decorated flower pots and jewelry boxes with these cute little guys and sold them in a gift shop on Cannery Row.

Jester

Mutt & Jeff Fishes

Coquettish Colt

Horse

Pamela had some Breyer horses when she was kid.  She must've spent hours studying them because she can draw stuff like this "right out of her head".  Amazing, right?

This is "just" a doodle that she drew during church.  She says she listens better when she doodles but she distracts those sitting around to her because they're more fascinated with her drawing than what's going on in church.  Anyway, maybe she'll comment and tell us more about her Breyer horse collection and how it has influenced her art.