The Doggie Art Craze
The norm in many households is doggie art, in display from masterpieces to photo mugs. A renowned pastel artist was contracted by a mother daughter duo from Memphis, Tennessee, to depict four of their pooches. Though two have already been mourned, they are remembered in these tasteful family portraits. It would not do to say one dog looks like the other.
The two dogs who stayed behind, Kelly Rae, a cockapoo puppy, and Miss Manners, a Lhasa apso, were portrayed as a couple last year. Courageous describes Kelly, and cold describes Miss Manners. That just about covers it. The “in crowd” of the art scene is beginning to see the true worth of doggie art. Articles on paintings like this can be viewed at pets portraits.
According to one expert in 19th century animal art, who also owns his own gallery in Manhattan, says that quality pet portraits that cost $2,500 ten years ago now sell for $10,000. A portrait of a Newfoundland named Neptune was sold for $577,000, an all time high, recently by the gallery owner. Based in Long Island, French animalier, with specialization in the 21st century, fetches as much as $250,000 per painted profile.
The Manhattan gallery owner further remarked that the revival in Victorian decor sparked interest in animal art. Promotional value and pleasure were brought into English homes by animal paintings, of pets and stable animals. Further, animal art, she says, fills a room with warmth.
Although she deals in the high end of the business, she doesn’t snub doting pet owners who commission their own portraits from local artists. The whole nation has become engrossed with pet paintings, all of which she considers serious art. For owners who want mirror image paintings of their dogs, they should just commission their own paintings, because they often cannot get a close enough resemblance from a painting of an ancestor dog. Artists who paint pets usually work from photos, which they may take themselves and they frequently must do alterations to suit very particular patrons. A water colorist, from Germantown, Tennessee, told of a bad experience with a patron who made her redo a painting of his two shaggy dogs, because she did not adequately capture the gleam in their eyes the first time around. For another client, she painted a satisfactory five pose portrait of a deceased dachshund, which she was not required to redo. Obtain further advice on paintings by checking out oil painting realism.
The past 13 years have been fruitful for another water colorist from Eads Tennessee, who does houses and pets. She does mostly dogs and horses, although she has done cats, fish and one woman’s frog. In her experience, the client’s face reveals his pleasure or displeasure with her work, especially when she has painted a pet that has passed away. They have a tendency to tear up.
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