I realize I actually don’t share many of the custom paintings or drawings I create for private clients (especially when they are surprise gifts!) so today I thought I would share a few recent pet and portrait commissions. Usually for family/couples/kids portraits I use pencil and white conte, but I do get asked to do the occasional oil portrait too. The one featured in this video was a unique challenge, but the client was thrilled and I felt accomplished making it work.
This first image is a chalk pastel drawing of Cooper, the puppers belonging to my long time client, Helen. He’s an active lil guy and pops up to say hi on her weekly blog as well as on our regular Zoom calls. So cute!
This second one was and oil painting I created for a Christmas gift and took a bit of skill to craft from two different photos, one being really old and one being modern and from a different angle. My client was thrilled that I was able to reunite her father with his late mother, which was a great feeling for me. You can see the challenges and process here.
This is a graphite (pencil) and white conte portrait of a couple I know from Hawai’i. Brittany commissioned this piece for their five year anniversary as a couple, and then Seth proposed soon after! How picture perfect is that?!?
Sweet Cassie made her way over the big rainbow bridge last year, but I am always humbled and honored to make memorial portraits of the most tender member of our family. These use both chalk pastel sticks for the larger blends and chalk pastel pencils for getting in the more refined details. My goal is always to pull as much personality out of pet portrait as possible, for their owners to celebrate and reminisce for all time.
If you have a family member (furry or otherwise) you’d like to commemorate, pop over to this page and tell me what’s one your mind. I’ll be happy to give you a no-obligation quote and help you think of the best way to capture their spirit forever :)
2.20.2022