Needless to say, working on the commissioned portraits have taken a front seat to blogging, photo uploading and just general maintenance. I am trying to find a little balance in my business and I have decided that I need to dedicate time each week to updating my blog, sharing recent portraits that I’ve completed, keeping my facebook page more active, etc. I think the longer I go without updating, the more daunting of a task it becomes. So I’ve decided that I’m taking the pressure off and just need to get back into it. No crazy long post, no particular reason for posting, just to start sharing more images and more insight into my daily life as I continue my quest to be the most sought after pet portraiture artist IN THE WORLD!!! Wa ha ha ha ha (evil laugh).

I hope to get into the swing of things with my new, highly sophisticated scheduling system (re: blog once a week on either a Thursday or Friday morning), so that as the holidays get closer and I get much busier, it will be something I can keep up with. That way when I promise my clients that their pets’ portrait will be displayed soon, I actually WILL display it soon.

So, without further ado, I leave you with some recent images of portraits I’ve completed in the past year. Definitely only a small sampling, you can see more on my flickr page or, of course, my website image gallery.

Grown up Fitz poses with Puppy Fitz

From Deanna:
I received the portraits, and of course they are amazing…. My husband was completely blown away. He can’t stop looking at them, they look SOOOO much like the dogs.
I can not thank you enough, you have a great eye and your creativity is amazing.

Sam looks on as Stanley printed canvas arrives and is revealed

One down. One to go. Wrapping Douglas's portrait

Sam and Makai hang with Stanley

Makai and Sam pose with the final portraits

Bay 12x12" on canvas

Abbott

But for now, I thought I’d show a shot of when I received the first canvas print in the mail as kind of a sneak peek. This also shows a little bit of my process. Since my artwork is graphic illustrations, I print the final digital file on high quality canvas. I purchase wooden stretcher bars separately and once I assemble the bars into the frame for the artwork, I wrap the canvas and then I have my finished portrait ready for delivery!

Here, Sam checks out the canvas while Makai remains unimpressed. Probably because I’m paying attention to something other than her.