Dog Portrait Painting

All portraits are guaranteed and capture your pets personality and likeness. Each portrait is completed in quality professional artists oil color on canvas. Portraits may also be completed as drawings in charcoal or as colored pastel drawing ( an artists professional chalk) on high quality professional archival paper. Prices vary according to size. These portraits are considered fine art and although completed from your favorite photo will not be merely photographic but interpreted with a feeling of light and air and have a sense of life to reflect your pets true personality.

My formal training was under Richard Lack (1928-2009) at the Atelier Lack School of Fine Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1977-1981. The Atelier provided a foundation in the art of drawing and painting. Here we learned to "see" nature. By that I mean to paint objects and scenes with a breadth of vision that would result in a work of art. The success of this depends on the quality of seeing on the artist's part. That of judging edges, values, colors, and shapes and then put together into a harmonious whole. The art of seeing can challenge most any artist for a life time.

This is accomplished in the atelier system through the drawing and painting of plaster casts from antiquity, figure drawing from the live model, still life, portraits and interiors with the figure. Spending many hours of close study and observation, the student would also study anatomy, design, color theory, perspective and practice visual memory exercises. Several traditional ateliers for painting that are now in the U.S. are a result of Richard Lacks teaching either through students that have handed down information by opening Ateliers of their own or through some direct contact with the school and Richard Lack. In addition R.H. Ives Gammell (1893-1981) was Richard Lacks teacher and was influential in helping to pass along traditional painting ideas and techniques from the Boston School of painting and the 19th century academies.