Pet Art Eases The Grieving Soul

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. Much like family pictures, this canvas preserves precious memories, especially after the death of two of the dogs. Do not make the mistake of revealing you cannot differentiate one dog from another.

Last year she and her mother had their two current dogs, Kelly Rae, a cockapoo puppy, and Miss Manners, a Lhasa apso, portrayed together. Complete opposites, Kelly is beyond snoopy, while Miss Manners, as her name implies, stays a safe distance away. That just about covers it. Ask any art connoisseur, and he will tell you that doggie art is the next craze.

Good quality animal portraits were valued at $2,500 ten years ago, a value that has since multiplied four times, according to a Manhattan gallery owner and expert in 19th century animal art. In an auction, he collected $577,000, his personal record, for a painting of a Newfoundland named Neptune. Based in Long Island, French animalier, with specialization in the 21st century, fetches as much as $250,000 per painted profile.

Once Victorian decor was rediscovered, animal art likewise grew in popularity. The English loved to create multitudes of animal paintings not only of their pets but also of other breeding animals such as horses, pigs and sheep whose portraits served as a kind of advertisement. She says that animal paintings give room instant warmth.

Her experience with thousand dollar animal art has not tainted her taste for locally commissioned pet portraits. 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. To get the painting just right for picky patrons, the artist must work with photos that they may have to take themselves and take into account the wishes of the client. A water colorist, based in Germantown, Tennessee, shared a story about a client who made her redo a painting of his two shaggy dogs to include a sparkle in their eyes. With a different painting, one of a deceased dachshund in five poses, the client was pleased after the first try.

The past 13 years have been fruitful for another water colorist from Eads Tennessee, who does houses and pets. There have been seldom cases in which she has had to paint cats, fish, and a frog, and more frequently she does dogs and horses. She says she knows when she's got it right by looking at the owner's face, when she views the portrait especially if the animal is dead. They have a tendency to tear up.

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