This female painter got her first dog when she was eight years old. That same year, the small Boston terrier died but it left the young girl with a lasting impression. There is a significant role for noble pets in her life today. Specializing in dog portraits, she is one accomplished painter.
She goes through every dog book and magazine she could find as she spent numerous Sunday afternoons in the public library. A professional dog handler was what she wanted to become early on being able to show dogs in trials and dog shows. Most of her time when she was 13 was spent in dog shows where she drew and sketched the animals. At age 16, a friend encouraged her to create portraits of dogs not to mention start painting with oils.
She has specialized by choice she's quite capable of painting other subjects and has to her credit a number of landscapes, sea scapes and abstracts. Quite early, however, she painted and sold some dog portraits and became increasingly convinced that her choice was right. The dogs belonging to the members of the family were what she used for the portraits. One local pet shop put up a notice about her paintings and then they displayed a picture she made of their own Boston terrier.
For a large measure of her progress, she credits two paintings. In her first painting was charlie black which is a mesmerizing little mongrel restored by the animal humane association to health and adopted as a mascot. What the second painting pictured was the champion phantom of the ice flue, a striking Alaskan malamute.
For a Labrador retriever, the very important assets are the head and the expression. Getting a photograph of a black dog is already difficult but it is harder to paint one. One of her paintings was of the statue of a jacket found in Tutankhamen's tomb and it was unusual. In the background she painted appropriate Egyptian symbols.
Sometimes, people ask her to make portraits of horses or other kinds of pets. She is able to receive both tangible and psychological help from her husband. He even made a specially designed table that holds her paints and brushes. Showing her work, she uses the specially crafted easels and display stands she made and stained herself. The biggest portrait she made was a three by four foot portrait of a Labrador.
The smoother dogs are easier to paint than those with longer coats. What she does not do is pose the dogs. Holding their heads just right will be a challenge for the dogs. She usually spends an hour or so observing the animal, however, so that she can remember his typical stance, the sheen and color of his coat, or those personality or character traits that are evident. As what plenty of people agree on, she has skills in putting these traits onto a canvas.
What she uses for these are snapshots from the owners. If the owner cannot provide her with a picture to use then she can take one herself and then blow it up on the screen. Considering backgrounds and the like, she leaves the decisions to the people she paints for. People have different preferences from plain ones to ones with sceneries. Considering family commitments, she is only able to do a portrait a month. I like to take a little vacation now and then catch up with my housework.
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