Commissioned Portrait: Gypsy
Gypsy was just about to turn 21 when I met her, and the challenge was for her human to choose
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Commissioned Portrait: Brody, a Close-up
Usually individual cat portraits include the entire cat, but in Brody’s case he was a big cat. His person’s husband
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Commissioned Portrait: Nick, Slightly Unconventional
Nick was a full-bred Himalayan and also a rescue cat. His person had won a certificate I’d donated to one
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Commissioned Portrait: Pongo’s Dalmatian Dots
Portraits of animals with irregular and asymmetrical markings are always fun because everything is unexpected as I work. Obviously a
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Commissioned Portrait: Scarlett and Melanie
A full-color rendering that covers the entire ground—paper, canvas, etc.—is often what we think of when we envision a “portrait”,
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Commissioned Portrait: Rambo
Meet Rambo, a portrait I painted in 2005 as a gift for a woman to give to her fiance. I’ve
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Father’s Day Animal Portrait Special, Only Two More Days
Did your parents pass on to you a love of animals? Did they decide one day you needed an animal
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Commissioned Portraits: Buddy and Tibbie, Related Through Time
In the early 90s I painted a portrait of an 18-year-old Himalayan cat with an attitude, Tibbie, below, and in
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Commissioned Portrait: Clifford
This simple portrait was a gift from one friend to another of her dog, Clifford. One of the rare portraits
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Commissioned Portrait: Veronica’s Tulips
I’ve referenced this painting a few other times in posts about commissioned portraits around Mother’s Day, and while it may
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