A selected range of quality products featuring this traditional acrylic pet portrait painting of this lovely Shar-Pei dog “Kruger” can be seen below and are now available for purchase. Ideal Christmas gift for the dog lover in your life!
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Pet Portrait of a black Shar-Pei, “Tia”. Original pet portrait artwork created using artist soft pastels on velour art paper.
A selected range of quality products featuring this traditional pastel painting on velour of this sweet black Shar-Pei, “Tia” can be seen below and are now available for purchase. Ideal Christmas gift for the dog lover in your life!
Please click the image below to purchase Greeting Cards and a range of Museum Quality Fine Art Canvas and Framed Prints of this painting.
Clothing, coffee mugs, drinkware, notebooks and a selection of unique gift items featuring this and other artwork can be purchase from my Zazzle store.
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Original acrylic and colour pencil painting of a lovely Chinese Shar-Pei dog named Aspen.
A selected range of quality products featuring this traditional acrylic and colour pencil painting ofthis sweet rescued Shar-Pei dog “Aspen” can be seen below and are now available for purchase. Ideal Christmas gift for the dog lover in your life!
Please click the image below to purchase Greeting Cards and a range of Fine Art Canvas and Framed Prints of this painting.
Clothing, coffee mugs, drinkware, notebooks and a selection of unique gift items featuring this and other artwork can be purchase from my Zazzle store.
VIEW ALL PRODUCTS FEATURING “ASPEN” SHAR-PEI DOG ART
This is the first time this original acrylic painting of a fawn Shar-Pei from my personal collection has been offered for sale.
The copyright watermark is a digital addition to the image below and is not on the original painting.
“Kruger”
Original acrylic Shar-Pei painting
9″x12″ acrylics on
Art Spectrum Colourfix art paper
“Kruger” Shar-Pei painting in acrylics by Michelle Wrighton
Two new dog breed portraits have now been added to the Dogs gallery, a Shiba Inu and another Shar-Pei (I just can’t resist wrinkles!). Both of these are color pencil/acrylic on drafting film.
Suki – Shiba Inu Pet Portrait
Aspen – Shar-Pei Painting
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This is the first full acrylic painting I have done using Art Spectrum Colourfix paper as the support (I usually only use for acrylic to paint the background or underpainting then add the details with colour pencil). This one of ‘Kruger’ is 9″x12″.
This support seems to work exceptionally well to help portray the bristly nature of the Shar-Pei fur (although their coat’s look soft and silky, they are actually a bit harsh and prickly!).
I get so involved when I am painting that I always forget to stop and take photos so that I can post a work in progress post, but I managed to get a couple this time, the first is the initial sketch, the second with a partial underpainting and then the final portrait.
This Shar-Pei pet portrait features on dog breed merchandise such as stationery, clothing, prints, greeting cards, tote bags and more.
Michelle
Happy New Year everyone! Wow, where has the last month gone? The rush of Christmas has come and gone and here we are already at the end of the first week of 2007.
While I havn’t managed to update this blog in the last month, I have finally had the time to add some new work to the Dog gallery and also the Photography Gallery. I quite often get asked about my techniques by other artists, and I actually managed to take some progress photos of two of the Christmas portraits that I did (the Rottweiler and the Chihuahua) and will put them togther as a work in progress type thread.
During my short break over Christmas and New year (I certainly needed it after the last minute commissions I had to finish), I had the opportunity to do several dog and cat photography sessions in the Perth area and have added a few to the photography gallery and have included a few of my favourites below.
Close-up images of animal faces, especially the eyes is a re-curring theme in both my artwork and photography. I truly believe the eyes are the windows to the soul, and by focusing (no pun intended!) on the eyes, I think it allows the spirit and soul of the animal to shine through.
Buffy having a rest
Meesha – grey, cream and white Domestic Shorthair
Jess – Australian cattle Dog (Blue Heeler)
Tia – Up close and personal with my own dog
The one below is obviously not an animal, but I also enjoy nautre and landscape photography. I took this one late in the evening at Roley Pools, the timing was great in as far as the golden evening light was concerned and I am quite happy with photos from that shoot.
Additional photos from these sessions can be viewed in my Photograph Gallery.
Apart from some minor adjustments that I might add in the next day or so, this is the (almost) completed portrait of our Chinese Shar-Pei, Tia.
Achieving depth and dimension with her black coat and all those wrinkles was a great challenge, but I thoroughly enjoyed working on this and I am really pleased with the resulting portrait, although I might need to get a better photograph in better light!
“Tia”
Pastels on Velour Art Paper
10″ x 14″
2006
This is the reference photo I used for Tia’s portrait – as you can probably see I took this photo with the flash on (something that is not usually recommended), just to make sure that I could see all the curves and contours of her wrinkly face! Most of the photos I have of her are either very black, or if she is in full sunlight, her eyes will be closed, so using the flash was the best way to get a nice detailed photo, then it was simply a matter of making her fur darker than it appeared in the photo to make it look like my dog rather than the washed out/faded reference photo.
This Shar-Pei art pet portrait features on dog breed merchandise such as stationery, prints, greeting cards, tote bags and more.
Shar-Pei Breed Info: Shar-Pei’s are an ancient dog breed, and are still fairly rare, although thanks to tv commercials such as the toilet roll ad with the wrinkly puppy, “Rolly” they are becoming more popular.
The breed is best known for its wrinkled apprearance which is caused by the excess skin they have. generally puppies and young dogs appear to have more wrinkles as older dogs grow into their skin a little bit. (This is actually a good thing, as Shar-Pei’s do suffer from skin conditions do to the wrinkles and rough fur irritating the skin.)
The name “Shar-Pei” literally means “sand-skin”, or loosely translated to “sand-paper-like coat” which refers to the unique characteristics of the Shar-Pei coat – its roughness and its shortness. The Shar-Pei also has another distinctive characteristic that is shared with only one other breed, the Chow Chow (also a Chinese breed) – both breeds have a blue-black tongue!
Of course I am biased, but Shar-Pei’s are an incredible breed – totally devoted to their families, highly intelligent and excellent watch/guard dogs!
More information on the Shar-Pei breed can be found at http://www.sharpei.com.au/
Cheers
Michelle
