Happy National Women's Equality Day, Happy National Dog Day

Happy National Dog Day, Cassie!

Over the years I've had the privilege of painting some wonderful dog portraits. Take a look.

Remington Creations Pet Portraits

In 1920 women were guaranteed the right to vote. I am grateful for those brave women who fought for this and I exercise my right every election day by voting for the lesser of two evils.

August 26, 1920 ~ Woman Suffrage Guaranteed by 19th Amendment

Early Walk w Cassie Girl, then morning Pinterest experiment (including bloodshed)

Woke early this Sunday morning. I like how quite it is Sunday mornings, so Cassie and I set out for adventure. Just some bunnies, and the melodies of feathered friends. Home again, home again, jigity jig. We shared a breakfast of eggs over easy & homemade oatmeal muffin. As I scanned Pinterest on my phone, I noticed a diy for these cute sakura flowers,

http://www.omiyageblogs.ca/2011/03/diy-sakura-kirigami.html?m=1

so I decided to give them a try. Of course - PAPER CUT! After a lot of cursing and a Mickey band-aid the experimentation continued. I don't have any Japanese or origami paper and my drawing paper proved to be too thick, so I tried wrapping paper - didn't come out too bad. I may have to purchase some appropriate paper and do some more :)

Now what next? Any suggestions Cassie?

National Dog Day - Cassie

Today is National Dog Day, so I gave Cassie an extra cookie :)

Here's a little sketch of my shy Cassie

I've had the privilege of painting portraits of some wonderful dogs, take a peek of my pet portrait page

www.remingtoncreations.com/petportraits/petportraits.html

Pit Bull Pet Portrait

This is Sahara - a happy, smiley dog I had the pleasure of painting for a friend to give as a birthday gift. It was a lot of fun working on a portrait with so much character.

'Sahara' soft pastel on paper 8x10in

Christmas Pet Portraits

These are the balance of the pet portraits I worked on before Christmas. I received some very nice comments about them and that makes me smile. The best thing is when my paintings give people joy :)

Two Bulldogs in progress

Two Bulldogs in progress

No rest for the weary :)
Sprayed the first portrait with fixative and while waiting for it to dry, I started on another one.

(originally posted 12/14/13 6:45 PM)

More progress on bulldogs

More progress on bulldogs

(Originally posted 12/15/13 10:49 AM)

3 dogs finished

Finished the 3 dogs this morning. Soft pastel 10x8

Hard at work on another portrait - 3 doggies :)

Two Old Buddies - pet portrait

 I finished the "Two Old Buddies" pet portrait. I like the way they are never apart.

It was a pleasure getting to know these two trough this painting.
10x8 soft pastel & pastel pencil on blue Canson Mi-Teintes paper.

Old buddies - pet portrait

Working on a pet portrait on this gray day - 2 old goldens, BFFs

10x8 soft pastel on canson paper

Working on Copper's "brother" Gauge

Black Lab Portrait - Gauge

Latest pet portrait - a Beagle named Copper

 

Beagle portrait - Copper

A pair of boxers

I had the privilege to work on these fine boxers &  finished this pet portrait last week (Christmas present)

disaster painting - fixed?

Here is the painting again. I used pastel pencils over the original painting. There are some spots that wouldn't take the pastel, because in those spots the color pencil was waxy instead of soluble, so the pastel skips over it (the pink color is that way), but over all, I think it looks better. I was doing this one to include in my Sketchbook I am working on for the sketchbook project, but in the rules it says not to use mediums that smudge, so that kind of eliminates pastels. I don't know if I'll try spraying it to the point of no smudge (which would darken the painting) or if I   will  print the scan and include it that way. We'll see.

Sketchbook Project: disaster painting

This is my disaster painting. I read in a magazine a painter/illustrator that used both colored pencil and water color to create interesting textures. but it didn't really work out for me. Some of the colored pencils I have are water soluble instead of waxy and they smeared and changed color instead of keeping their texture. I think I'm going to try to use this as a underpainting and apply pastels over it & see if I can salvage it.

Latest Pet Portrait finished

I finished the latest pet portrait. 5 dog heads 14x11 inches, pastel pencils. I'll be delivering it this weekend.
Comments always welcome  :)

working on a new pet portrait (5 dogs) plus sales flyer

I'm currently working on 2 jobs this week. A sales flyer for a local business and a pet  portrait of 5 dog heads that will be a birthday present.

The finished size will be 11x14 - it's the first time I've done so many at one time. I'm using Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper in one the speckle-tone-colors. since each of the heads will end up being kind of small, I'm using just pastel pencils, instead of pastel sticks as I normally would. Here is what I've accomplished so far. Comments are always welcome.  :)

We have this lovely dog we adopted from the shelter over a year ago, a gorgeous lab/shepherd mix. All shiny black with a touch of white on her chest. I am greeted in the mornings buy a soft furry black nose nuzzling me "good morning" & I open my eyes to those pretty brown eyes looking back. I created an etsy treasury highlighting the talented work of dog-loving artists creating things for other dog lovers. I thought I'd share it with you.
Puppy Love! Woof!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c4708d0afa68eef905b9a31/puppy-love-woof

Cassie