There’s nothing better than painting a happy dog! I love doing portrait commissions of smiling pooches. From my perspective, as the artist doing the painting, portraying a happy dog makes the portrait come alive. It adds a great real life quality to the dog, and makes it impossible to dismiss. There’s nothing wrong with a serious dog, and I enjoy painting those portraits as well. But working on a happy, smiling dog portrait is a …
What’s so interesting about dog painting demos at craft fairs? You never know what’s going to happen next.
My portrait samples page has grown a bit with 23 new entries.
Yeah, I’m still alive.
Scott Adams died today (or yesterday) after a long illness. For the last ten years or more, Scott was a big deal on the internet. He hosted daily “Coffee With Scott Adams” video blogs (do we still call them that, or do we go with vlogs?). He predicted Trump’s win in 2016, when everybody was sure the Wicked Witch of Arkansas was going to take it. Later, he aired some contrary views on race relations …
Nothing shakes away the winter blues (for me anyway) better than a pleasant pet portrait video set to a happy jazzy tune. I think you’ll feel the same after watching. In under four minutes you’ll see these two best buddies take shape before your eyes! This is a video of me painting in Rebelle Pro 8 a pet portrait of my dear Hudson (who passed last June) and his good buddy Frank (who is still …
For your reading pleasure, here is my latest bartering experience with a Bernese Mountain Dog. On our morning walk in the woods, I discover the big Berner has a freshly decapitated deer’s head. I don’t know where he found the head. It could be a coyote or cougar kill; it may have been from a bow hunter. I don’t care. These woods are full of deer carcasses. Drought. Bluetongue (EHD). Death. The deer population has …
Here’s the story of Otter, a last minute portrait order in 2023 and how he’s really not sad, just sleepy.
A happy little dog portrait painted for Christmas 2024.
The customer wanted a portrait of both her dogs together. No problem. She provided several photos of each dog. Again, no problem; I can sketch both dogs together as my starting point. I painted Millie as a small terrier and Bear as a medium-size dog and sent a proof. Almost immediately I received a panicked reply saying that both dogs are the same size! She was afraid the portrait was set in concrete at that …
