Handmade on Amazon, Live and Ready for my Pet portraits!

Sarge is looking for his portrait painting
on Handmade at Amazon!

Handmade at Amazon opened for business today and my shop there is live and open for business: My Handmade at Amazon

I need to add more samples and more of my woodblock prints and other art, but am optimistic that Amazon will do this up right and publicize it to make it worth our while.

I'm so honored that I was chosen as one of the pioneers of Handmade!  It's exciting and encouraging for sure!

And I hope Etsy gets off it's self-appointed high horse for handmade and actually advertises for buyers for us.

If they still really want customers of true handmade, that is. Which is of course debatable, given their encouragement of factory made in the past two years!

Tabby Cat Portrait, love those green eyes?

Tabby cat custom portrait I recently completed for a really happy client!  Love how she is looking right at me, I did her eyes early on, so she stared at me the whole time.

Since this pretty cat's portrait is so close up and personal, lots of individual fur hairs show.  Usually, my work is more painterly, with blocks of color rather than fur by fur.  And most of this is that way, too, but it wouldn't have looked right from this distance to NOT have a sprinkling of individual fur.

Now you may be wondering what Sarge, my boxer puppy, thinks about kitties.  He's actually only got one in his life, Dr. Fitz, who he gets to visit from time to time.  He's just curious, wants to play, but Dr Fitz has other ideas and leaves the room or jumps up high.

Dr. Fitz lives with Sarge's half brother, Hoss, also a boxer puppy...a so called black boxer... and Hoss and the good doctor get alone fine.

Thanks for visiting my blog!  I'll have more pet portraits and art to show and tell soon!  Robin

Baby and Dog Group Custom Portrait from Photos

Custom Portrait from Photos

First custom portrait of this holiday season was of two little guys, one a brand new baby, one a more mature canine!  As usual, I have to apologise for my photo skills, I can't seem to get details and the transition to those cute pink cheeks is not that dramatic!  But you get the idea.

My client gave this as a gift for the grandparents of both of them.  Since the child and the dog live miles apart, I needed to work with separate photos.  And for a background, we used the quilt that my client had made especially for the baby!  I toned it down a bit, that gorgeous quilt could have been a portrait all its own.  My favorite part?  Doing the fuzzball head!  I forgot how downy and fuzzy those little guy's hair can be!