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Beginning the Cavalier Painting

Beginning the Cavalier Painting

by | May 12, 2019 | Blog

Beginning the Cavalier Painting My goal when I started this painting was to get the entire canvas (or in my case, a panel) covered with paint. I knew with the complexity of the pattern in the chair, I needed to get the whole thing blocked in at one time so my colors...
Sketch for a Painting of Mack

Sketch for a Painting of Mack

by | May 2, 2019 | Blog

Sketch for a Painting of Mack This is the sketch I prepared for a portrait of Mack. He’s a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and is now about 12 years old.  He’s very, very special. His human family just adore him, and he’s so sensitive, he knows...
Halfway Through a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Portrait

Halfway Through a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Portrait

by | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog

Halfway Through a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Portrait I’m about halfway through Morgan’s portrait. Nearly all of my paintings go through a dark and harsh stage on their way to completion. I paint dark to light–so they get lighter and lighter as I...
Painting Morgan a Second Time

Painting Morgan a Second Time

by | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog

Painting Morgan a Second Time I’ve been painting pet portraits professionally for quite awhile. In fact, I established my Facebook page Hope Lane Pet Portraits, back in 2012 which was when I was first starting out. One of my earliest portraits was of a little...
Sweet Katey, beginning a memorial portrait

Sweet Katey, beginning a memorial portrait

by | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog

Sweet Katey, beginning a memorial portrait I began this painting of Katey, a lovely little Cavalier who crossed the rainbow bridge, quite a while ago. I was looking over my past work and realized that this turned out to be a favorite painting–but that I never...