Thanks to her unpredictable clients, this lady artist from Pasadena always expects some trouble. Well bred subjects as they might be, they will never pose politely and patiently as any human beings would. It would be the subject who will dictate on everything, he will sit for a very brief time to enable the lady to examine its aristocratic features and off it goes as soon as a scratch at an imaginary flea or a bark that signals his attention is cut sounds off.
Since the muses of her portraits are these pooches, she goes to the second floor studio of their 67 year old house and does most of her preliminary sketching with an instant camera in hand. She encounters dog subjects posing better than other subjects such as cats. Seemingly very vain with their appearance, the better posers she has encountered are thoroughbreds with show experience.
Purebred dogs are mostly her clients. Compared to mongrels or mixed breeds, these thoroughbreds are easier to paint as their shades of coats and the structure of their skeleton are very recognizable. Her very favorite subjects are purebred hounds, since the hound's hair is so short that the fine structure of his body very clearly shows through. Moreover, she enjoys capturing the marvelous expression of these hounds.
This artist is also an expert in watercolor landscapes as well as a technical illustrator during the week for their town's observatory. Her best works are housed in a popular gallery. An institute for the arts found in New York City was where she learned how to be an illustrator for magazines. The reason she first tried her paints on dogs was because this was recommended by one of her professors.
As a true animal lover, she would go around New York and using first hand information, she would carefully study and sketch the most wonderful breeds. Soon she had her very first commission, which was to paint the dog owned by a wealthy dowager residing in the city of New York. The painting of the dog which was felice signed took its place beside the lady dowager's original Rembrandt and Frans Hals paintings after it was framed elegantly. Along with studies and description of dog breeds acknowledged by the American kennel club, a sketchbook was launched and it was received so well.
Twenty years ago, their family moved into a 1913 Pasadena craftsman's house, in California, and on second floor was a venue promising the perfect studio for a great artist. This where fond pet owners take their beloved pet dogs to be captured in canvas for posterity. Even as she can capture these canine models in charcoal or oil, she prefers to use pastels most of the time. She gets work more than what she can bear with during the Christmas season.
Just like painters of human beings, she readily admits to flattering her non human subjects just a little bit. Currently being raised by her and her retired electrical engineer spouse are purebred hounds known as salukis, whose line are found as early as the time of ancient Persia and Egypt.
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