Pet Portrait Updates

"Lulu & Harry"
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"Parker & Pepper"
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Working on design updates today. The pups at top are for a terrific repeat client in the UK that always gives me great photos to work with. The canine-feline duo are for a client that is doing multiple projects this month. I am starting on her Westies next. Both clients are purchasing portraits as gifts for their pals. Yay!

Going to try hard to get back to more frequent blog posting. I am teaching one night a week at our local creative arts center here in Dallas and also taking a ceramics art class one night a week.  I find a direct correlation between how much I blog and how active I am in the physical world. It seems that the more I get out of the house and meet with other artists in my city the less time I have to spend on line. I am always trying to find the right balance when it comes to my web-life and my real life. I know that my blog gives my business a pulse and reassures potential clients that yes, there is a real person going to work each day here at Art Paw.

Art Paw Birthday Sale!

We are turning 14 this month. Wow, I can not believe I have been creating pet portraits for 14 years. To celebrate I am having a sale on 14 x 14 stretched Painterly style portraits. If you order on-line and check out with our shopping cart you can save 14% ( $49) on our new square 14 x14 sized portraits.  You just have to use promo code " Birthday" then hit recalculate to see your savings.
The sale is good until the end of the month.  Order Now!  
This will probably be our last sale of the season on pet portraits, so don't miss out. Now is the time to be ordering for Christmas.

"Big Tommy"
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Lovely German Shepherds

"Frankie & Phoebe" ( see all proofs)
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Sometimes clients need just a little help choosing from the many proofs I provide ( anywhere from 10 to 16).  The good news is that once they narrow their favorites down I can easily create a mock up for them of the artwork on their walls, if they can e-mail me a quick snapshot. I am usually not a fan of cell phone images for the pet photographs that I work from, but cell phones are a great tool for showing me interior shots of where the artwork will hang.  I also kind of enjoy seeing inside the lives of my 4 legged subjects... notice dog toys at bottom left of fireplace ... so cute.

This project is a large 36 x 24 for a terrific repeat client. I can not wait to see these stunning pups printed up, great original photos on this one.

Mosaic Monday/ Skull Art

"Write This Upon a Page"
© rebecca collins

Last Friday I started a Day of the Dead project using appropriated text from my Grandfather's poetry. I never knew my biological Grand Father because he died when my Mom was just a kid. I think he must have been a bit of a character. The little I do know of him is this:
He had the only auto in town when he met my Grandmother.
He was 60 years old when he married my Grandmother and she was only 20.
He had 6 wives total in his life and I am not sure how many kids.
When he was just a boy he fought in the Spanish American war.
He was a printer by trade and a poet.

The last factoid was interesting to me since my husband is a poet and a printer as well.

The entire skull will be covered in glass and then grouted. The text will show through the glass.
I have about 6 more hours to go on this one ... I think.

"Write This Upon a Page"
© rebecca collins

"Write This Upon a Page"
© rebecca collins

"Write This Upon a Page"
© rebecca collins

"Write This Upon a Page"
© rebecca collins