2015-04 – Commissioned Painting – Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Abbey and Sophie

Abbey and Sophie
11×14 Water-mixable oil on Canvas
w/Wood Floater Frame
04-2015

Abbey and Sophie were a pair that have lived together for all of their life but they refuse to sit together for a photo session. This painting was from to separate images of Abbey and Sophie that were spliced together using Photoshop prior to painting. They photos were taken on a nice spring morning in their back yard.
I am using 1.75in high quality 11in x 14in gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick

Watch me paint these two from start to finish via time lapse. Original Youtube video can be found here: https://youtu.be/5x5sT5ENthg

2015-03 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Cowboy

Cowboy
10in x 20in Oil on Canvas
03-2015

A group of amazing people offered to put enough money together to purchase this beautiful painting of Cowboy who was recently lost. There were many possible images to chose from but I thought this one was best because it had Cowboy taking up more of the overall space. Others had very nice backgrounds, etc but this one really shined and showed off Cowboy and who he was.
I am using 1.75in high quality gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick

Original Youtube video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AibrQzTyHj4

2015-01 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Chiquitou

 

Chiquitou
10in x 10in Water-mixable oil on canvas
01-2015

I am using 1.75in high quality gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick

Original Youtube video can be found here: https://youtu.be/3GTl59ON8Iw

 

2014-12 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Lily GSD

Lily
16×20 Acrylic on Canvas
12-2014

Lily was a longtime daycare dog who got to grow up with Sarah and I and our business. This was a present to Lily’s people from their parents and was completed just in time for Christmas. I love Lily, she is such a goofy, loving dog.
I am using 1.75in high quality gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick

Original Youtube video can be found here: https://youtu.be/ZCTlTco79lg

2013-04 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Cedi

Cedi
16×20 Acrylic on Canvas
04-2013

This was a group gift to the owner of Cedi who passed away. I was able to use a fantastic, high-res photo that had a lot of detail this time. It was also my first time using a tablet to view the image while painting instead of a print out of the original image. It was a nice technological addition to my style.
I am using 1.75in high quality gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick

I also began to record my painting progress and creating a time lapse of the videos. Original Youtube video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=_YmrfrDdXSY

2013-05 – Commissioned Painting – Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Shanna

Shanna
16″w x 20″h
Acrylic on Canvas with floating frame
2013-05

I still remember the first day that Shanna and her person came into the store. Shanna was just recently adopted from out of town where she lived her puppy life in a farm atmosphere. Her life that day changed immensely, Shanna is part of a family that loves her to death and giver her most everything she deserves. She deserved a painting by me :).
This was my first photo session + painting in one. I got to bring Shanna down to a local park and take some photos of her in hopes that we get a good one that we can work from for a 16in x 20in painting. Here are the results.

Please watch this video on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwinAIYo8oM

2013-03 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Molly

Molly
16″ x 20″
Acrylic on Canvas
03-2013

Molly was a great challenge for me, I hadn’t painted a black dog for quite some time. It was not the greatest image to work from and turned out great.

I am using 1.75in high quality gallery stretched canvas with a floating frame via Gotrick.

View the original Youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa6zPV-A78A

2012-12 – Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Crystal the Cat with Pauline

Paulina and Crystal the Cat
Acrylic on Canvas
16×20
12-2012

A Christmas gift, this came from quite a poor quality image. An image that came from an older cameraphone that could only take pics of a 0.8 megapixel quality. I think it turned out quite well based on the lack of details that I had to work from.

 

2012-10 – Pet Portrait Painting by Cameron Dixon – Rebel I & II

Rebel I & II
16 x 20 acrylic on canvas
09-2012 and 10-2012

I got to paint Rebel twice, the first one was a gift and the second one was a request by the owner after she received her first painting :).