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PORTRAITS OF PEOPLE . . . PETS & PLACES
Kate can arrange for delivery of your pet or family portrait to Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Angus, Bangor, Bath, Bedfordshire, Belfast, Berkshire, Birmingham, Blaenau Gwent, Bradford, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Cheshire, Chester, Conwy, Cornwall, County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Durham, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County Tyrone, Coventry, Cumbria, Denbighshire, Derby, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Dublin, West Dunbartonshire, Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Ely, Edinburgh, Essex, Exeter, Falkirk, Fife, Flintshire, Glamorgan, Glasgow, Gloucestershire, Grampian, Gwent, Gwynedd, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Inverclyde, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Lancaster, Leeds, Leicestershire, Lichfield, Lincolnshire, Lisburn, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesex, Merseyside, Moray, Newcastle, Newport, Newry, Norfolk, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Norwich, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Perth & Kinross, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Powys, Renfrewshire, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Salisbury, Scottish Borders, Scottish Highlands, Sheffield, Shropshire, Somerset, Southampton, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Stirling, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Swansea, Tayside, Torfaen, Tyne & Wear, Wakefield, Warwickshire, West Lothian, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Wolverhampton and Worcestershire.
Other pet portraits
Cats and dogs are a popular choice but any pet can be immortalised on canvas. From horses and farm animals to rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, fish, reptiles and birds, like Pickle the cockatiel below! No animal is too weird and wonderful to be painted.
Dog Portraits
Portraits of dogs can be painted on box canvases or board using acrylic paints or on coloured paper using soft pastels.
Pet Portraits
Kate has been creating pet portraits to sell since 2002. She takes commissions for birthdays and Christmas gifts or for owners to remember their much loved animal. Dogs of all sorts of breeds, cats, horses, birds and other animals can be painted. Portraits of pets can be full body or head and shoulders with plain backgrounds or posing in their favourite spot. Collars and favourite toys can be included too. These paintings make excellent presents as they are unique and personal gifts.
If you would like a custom pet portrait, first assemble a collection of photos and choose your favourite pose. Next decide what size you would like and whether you want the portrait to be in coloured pastel or acrylic paint.
Backgrounds can be added in or left plain, so for instance, you may want them on a cushion or by the sea. For complex backgrounds please add 20%. Portraits can be assembled from different photographs and the higher the quality and more detailed the photograph, the higher the quality of the final painting. Photos can be sent via email, through the post as prints, or on CD. If possible photos should be taken outside in natural daylight or if would like to use a photograph taken by a professional photographer please ask for their permission. Names of pets, a collar or tag can be added to the picture for no extra cost.
- For help about taking the kind of photos that produce the best portraits please read COMMISSION A PORTRAIT page.
- Browse the GALLERY and look at ART FOR SALE for original works of art to purchase and other examples of animal commissions.
Contact Kate via email or call
01243 276567 or 0777 3499664
Cat portraits
The tabby to the left was painted in acrylics on a box canvas. The others were pastel drawings. Plants were added for interest around Gilbert, and Jazy is seated on her favourite chair.
This is what the owners say: He's so lifelike it made me cry. It's my Titus to a
"T" -
It's arrived and up on the wall. It's even better than I imagined it would be. Thank
you so very much, you have done a fantastic job :-
The collie, spaniels, west highland terrier and schnauzer were painted in acrylics
and texture paste on canvas board -
The five dogs above and three below were drawn using soft pastels on 150gsm pastel paper and framed with mount and spacers to keep the pastel protected.
