An Expert in Dog Paintings and Portraits
Thanks to her unpredictable clients, this lady artist from Pasadena always expects some trouble. Well bred subjects as they might be, they will never pose politely and patiently as any human beings would. Eager to be off and about his affairs, her typical client will allow this artist only a very few minutes to study and make an assessment his aristocratic features and then, abruptly, with a short, loud bark or a well mannered scratch at an imagined flea, he indicates that the sitting is over for the day.
Dogs being her portrait subjects call for the use of an instant camera where she captures these canines and does her preliminary sketches at the comfort of the sunny second floor studio of the 67 year old house she, along with her beloved husband, live in. With her experience in both cats and dog subjects, she has realized that some poses stand out. Highly trained show breeds who look condescendingly vain when it comes to how they looked are very superior posers.
Thoroughbreds are mostly in her clientele roster. Compared to mixed breeds, they are much easier to paint as their skeletal structure and coat shades are more distinct. But her favorite ones are purebred hounds which have short hair and defined structure that is easily seen. Capturing the great expressions of these dogs also make her enjoy them more. More than anything, she is also the local observatory’s technical illustrator and a landscape artist using watercolor as preferred medium. A well known gallery houses her best works of art. In New York City learning institute, she took up a course that led her to be a magazine illustrator. After the suggestion of one of her teachers, she tried her paints on cuddly dogs.
As a true animal lover, she would go around New York and using first hand information, she would carefully study and sketch the most wonderful breeds. A portrait of a dog owned by a rich dowager from New York was the first commission she got. The dog painting, felice signed, took its place right next to the lady lady dowager’s original Frans Hals and Rembrandt pieces soon after it got its very elegant and elaborate frame. Successfully, she launched a book that did not only have sketches but also great descriptions and studies of every breed listed by the American kennel club after.
Her family moved to California 23 years ago, into their 1913 Pasadena craftsman’s house with the perfect room for a serious artist’s studio on the second floor. This where fond pet owners take their beloved pet dogs to be captured in canvas for posterity. Though she does some of her four pawed posers in charcoal or oils, the lady painter uses mostly pastels. Christmas is the favorite time of clients to come in, making her have more work than usual. An average portraitist of human beings spill flattery for their subjects once in a while and she reveals she does this to her subjects too. Along with her husband, a retired electrical engineer, she has been raising dogs known as salukis, purebred hounds with bloodlines reach back to ancient Persia and Egypt.
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