subject: Artist's Work Hangs Beside A Rembrandt And A Frans Hals [print this page] Artist's Work Hangs Beside A Rembrandt And A Frans Hals
This female Pasadena portraitist has trouble with most of her unpredictable subjects every time she does a painting of them. Such subjects are not capable of politely and patiently posing as mother did for whistler even as they all turn out to be thoroughbreds. The subject dictates when the sitting is done as it will only allow her a few minutes before he runs off to go about his affairs, enabling her to make a brief assessment at its aristocratic features and a bark or a twitch would signal that it was time to go.
The best manner of capturing dogs into her portraits is with the help of an instant camera and she does so at the second floor of her nice 67 year old home which she and her husband stay in. She encounters dog subjects posing better than other subjects such as cats. These canines who are better posers ones who seem to be very highly trained and they are the ones who are show breeds and have been trained thoroughly.
Purebreds are what most of her canine clients comprise of. The superior skeletal structure and coat shades of thoroughbreds are far easier to paint than most mongrels. When asked what her favorite subjects are, she readily responds with the purebred hounds who have nice short hair and a fine bodily structure that is apparent. Capturing the great expressions of these dogs also make her enjoy them more.
She is a local observatory technical illustrator during the week and she also is adept with creating breathtaking landscapes with water color as medium of choice. A famous gallery is home to some of her best works. In New York City learning institute, she took up a course that led her to be a magazine illustrator. The reason she first tried her paints on dogs was because this was recommended by one of her professors.
Loving animals anyway, she started hanging around dog shows in New York, carefully studying and sketching the best of the breeds at first hand information. Her first commission was to create a portrait of a dog owned by a New York based dowager. The felice signed dog elegantly mounted on an elaborate frame, was immediately hung next to the lady dowager's original Rembrandt and Frans Hals paintings. Successfully, she launched a book that did not only have sketches but also great descriptions and studies of every breed listed by the American kennel club after.
Their Pasadena home only welcomed them 23 years ago in the year 1913 and this craftsman's home had a nice room for a serious artist to work in, found on its second floor. Pet owners come to her to have their pet pooches painted for posterity, showcasing their immense beauty. Charcoal and oil are also good mediums for her to depict her four pawed clients, but then she would rather use pastels. More than what she can handle, she gets flooded with work during the Christmas season.
Even if her subjects are only animals, she still flatters them the way an average painter would to a human subject. Hounds whose bloodline reach as far back as the time of ancient Persia and Egypt known as salukis are being bred by her and her husband who is a retired electrical engineer.
