Animal Portraits...Commissions, Gift Certificates, Limited Edition Prints, Note Cards
Thank you to the Simmons family for allowing me to memorialize your beloved Gus. I hope his portrait always brings smiles.
Thank you to the Simmons family for allowing me to memorialize your beloved Gus. I hope his portrait always brings smiles.
I discovered a talent for drawing pets at age 70, and my art quickly became an all-consuming passion to create animal portraits that capture their personalities and spirits...and your imagination! Whether your favorites are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, birds, or wild creatures of the woodland, mountains, jungles, or sky, I create portraits that draw you in, instilling memories or fantasies.
My animal portraits are entirely hand-drawn, using reference photos that you provide. I use several media, primarily colored pencil, pastels, and graphite. I use a variety of surfaces for my art, depending on the medium, your goals, and the reference photos of your pet. Pricing is dependent on your requests. As an example, a 9"x12" colored pencil head portrait of one dog is $225.
In my spare time, I enjoy photography (often capturing the subjects of my animal portraits), hiking, my hammered dulcimer, and the art and music of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Our pet Schnauzer and Border Collie are rarely far from our sides.