The difference between human portraiture and animal portrait painting is that while humans don't mind posing, most animals do. An artist has to exert a lot of effort to get and capture an animal's attention. An expert in this particular field is a female artist of Wilmington. The Delaware family are her relatives. She has a grandfather whose artwork included a famous collection of sea and landscape paintings. It is not surprising that at 3 years old, this female artist was painting as well. Animal drawings were her favorites. 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. She got to learn how to dance a number of different kinds of dances because of the help she had been getting from her Philadelphia teachers. She did solo dance routines for several years and was known for a very convincing death scene in one of her shows. Painting portraits of dogs is what interests her most out of all the other animals she has made portraits of. The way she starts on a dog's portraits grabs at your interest. She draws different sketches while the owner tries to keep the dog from moving too much. The movements of her pencil are a blur as she tries to find the best pose for the model. In the meantime she is constantly talking to the dog, telling him how beautiful he is, what a good dog and so forth. She uses different kinds of props to grab the animal's attention. She gathers photos of the dog from the owner, and also asks the owner if it is possible to duplicate the pictures for her collection. She collects hair from the dog's tail, ears, and tummy and tries to match their colors. The snips are kept under the dog's file. She decides on a pose and a composition with the perfect background to use for the photograph. A composition is selected based on the type of dog or animal. To get the background for a portrait of a Chesapeake Bay retriever, she had to sit in a duck blind and make the sketches while there. She found out that animals can have their own opinions regarding something. An American pointer proves this point when he crept up behind one artist and tore her painting apart with his teeth. It must have been bad or at least bad for him for he had to have quite a large dose of medicine to remedy this expression of disapproval. For beagle and basset portraits, she blends in with the scenery a dog paw print and also puts the kennel club's identifying symbols on the back. She even made abstract backgrounds, done with the aid of her own dog's paw. Most of the time, animals don't agree. Because one model left with one of the female dogs, portrait painting was stopped for the day. This may seem like an ordinary thing, but it does make one wonder if the unusual always happens while an animal's portrait is being painted.
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Animal portrait painting is, not unlike human portraiture except that animals rarely like to pose. Maintaining an animal's attention is not a simple task for an artist to do.
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