I have just seen some of your beautiful work for the first time and wondered what you could do for me?
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This is the question Barbara emailed me back in August, she'd seen an image on social media of my golden retriever with their head surrounded by flowers (it became a greeting card design for Thortful), she wanted to know if I could do a similar painting but with her dog Ellie... "The colours of the flowers are completely as I would like in one of my rooms. So how does this work. Do you ask for a photograph to sketch from?" This is exactly the sort of project I love, starting with Ellie, who’s 13 and a half and is quite the diva apparently, I painted her in watercolours first. I had 2 photo’s to work from, we both agreed the first one had the better expression to focus on |
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Often photographs don't always have all the details so I will usually add expression details where I can to see how far I can bring out their characters. This is where I would normally stop with a classic portrait painting, but not here!
 Moving onto the flowers, these were painted in watercolours on a separate sheet. I scanned the flower images and arranged them in to something like the image below and I added a little butterfly and bee as finishing touches.
 I scanned both sets of images and then worked digitally to move them into place. This is the part of the process I missed completely in the video, hopefully I'll get better at recording my work!
From initial email to delivery of the artwork was 3 months, so that gives a good idea of the normal turn around/wait time when you commission me.
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Barbara also sent me this lovely photograph of the artwork in place at home once she’d had it framed.
“Just thought I'd show you the lady herself and say a huge thank you for making such a lovely end result for me. I am delighted with it!”
This was such an enjoyable commission to take on, this photo says it all for me and really is the reason I love to paint dogs so much for other people. Thank you again Barbara and Ellie for letting me share this story. Has this got you thinking what I might be able to do for you? Let me know in the comments or drop me an email at jo@joscottart.com |
