Dakota - Original image
Dakota - Complete
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
2014-12 - Commissioned Pet Portrail Painting - Lily GSD - Original
2014-12 - Commissioned Pet Portrail Painting - Lily GSD
2014-12 - Commissioned Pet Portrail Painting - Lily GSD - Detail
Original Youtube video can be found here: https://youtu.be/ZCTlTco79lg
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
2013-04 - Pet Portrait Painting - Cedi - To show Scale
2013-04 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Cedi copy
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
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.
2013-05 - Commissioned Painting - Pet Portrait Painting - Shanna Original
2013-05 - Commissioned Painting - Pet Portrait Painting - Shanna Complete
Please watch this video on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwinAIYo8oM
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.
2013-03 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Molly - in progress
2013-03 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Molly- complete
2013-03 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Molly- complete2
View the original Youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa6zPV-A78A
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.
2012-12 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Crystal the Cat with Pauline-printout
2012-12 - Commissioned Pet Portrait Painting - Crystal the Cat with Pauline
This painting was for Sarah, it was from a photo that I took of her and our husky Maui in our backyard in Lethbridge, AB. Maui was a beautiful, Sarah was beautiful, I had to paint it! This was the first time in a very long time that I attempted to paint a person as well. It took quite a bit longer but I gained the confidence to know that I can do it again if people requested.
2010-12 - Commissioned Painting - Pet Portrait Painting - Sarah and Maui Complete with Working Printout
2010-12 - Commissioned Painting - Pet Portrait Painting - Sarah and Maui Complete