subject: Child Artist's Future Is Creating Animal Portraits [print this page] Animal portrait painting is just the same as human portraiture with the exception that animals hate to pose. An artist will have to give in a lot of effort just to keep an animal from getting distracted. It is in this particular field that the artist from Wilmington became an expert. She is a member of the famous Delaware family. Her grandfather, a painter, created sea and landscape paintings which won the approval of the public. By the time she was age 3, this female artist began to paint as well.
Most of the time, she drew animals. She was 12 when she drew illustration for children's books and was younger still at the age of 10 when she had her first show. Through the tutelage of famous Philadelphia dance teachers, she got to learn a wide variety of dances. She did solo dance routines for several years and was known for a very convincing death scene in one of her shows.
Of all the animals she has painted portraits of, what interests her the most are canines. The way she starts working on a dog's portrait sparks interest. While the owner of the dog does what he can to keep the dog from changing positions, she makes many sketches of the dog.
She tries to find the pose that would be most characteristic of the dog, all the while that her pencil flies over the sketchpad. She compliments the dog on his appearance and behavior in the meantime. She uses all kinds of props, even tidbits of food to hold the animal's interest. She asks for the photographs that the owner might have of the dog and seeks permission from him to make copies for her collection. She cuts strands of hair from the dog's tail, ears, and tummy to collect and observe their colors. The snips are kept under the dog's file.
The next thing she does is to make a choice of pose and background for the shot. When you know what type of dog or animal will be used, then you will be able to select a composition. For the portrait of a Chesapeake Bay retriever, for instance, she sat in a duck blind doing sketches to obtain the necessary realism.
Dogs already have their own views, just like people, she observed. This was proven by a damaged painting which had been chewed upon by an American pointer who seemed to show disgust for it. It must have been a terrible painting if he had to get some form of medical treatment after showing his disapproval.
For portraits of beagles and bassets, she puts in scenery and a paw print and then proceeds to putting the symbols of the kennel club on the back. She was able to even produce abstract backgrounds with assistance from her own dog. Animals are bent on giving artists a difficult time. One model ran off with one of the female dogs, putting a sudden end to all portrait painting for that day. Not so ordinary things seem to take place when the painting of an animal's portrait is being made.
by: aidande
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