May 21, 2006
pet portraits
So one of the things I've been doing lately is portraits of peoples' pets -- so far dogs, cats, and parrots. Lots of people do dog and cat portraits, but I have yet to encounter anyone who does commissioned pet bird portraits -- maybe I've found a special niche! In fact, I hope someday I'll get commissioned to do portraits of more unusual pets, I'd love to do frogs, iguanas, ferrets, tartantulas, horses...
In any case, I've done a number of portraits for my bird sitter in trade for bird sitting, which works out really well -- she has a bunch of beautiful parrots for me to paint! Here is the subject of the one I'm working on right now, a portrait of her caique, Tengu. The next step is to paste this cut-out onto some kind of pretty, textured ground, but I was happy enough with the portrait itself that I thought I'd post a scan of it.
