Making Portraits Of Pets

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By Anthony Mitchell

When he does portraits, there is a man whose range includes not only parakeets but alligators and a champion black angus as well and this is not only becoming a thriving but also a highly specialized art business. A fine quality photograph is all I need for a painting of a pet flea, says the master. But he drew the line by restricting himself to accommodate birds, dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, and one alligator.

Creatures that move about and things that stirred his creativity were his interests as a kid. When it comes to supporting a wife and a youngster all artists know that selling fine paintings cannot make for a good living. Not only did he continue his studies at the Bay Area but he also aimed for a career in commercial art. It was in World War II when he opened a display business and engaged in fine art as a hobby.

What he did was make a portrait of a pair of siamese cats owned by a friend and then his wife suggested that he develop his hobby into a business after it delighted the cats who purred and rubbed against it almost ruining the piece in the process. When it comes to his income from the pet portrait painting business the results are rather impressive.

Most recently he showed, some of his work at the cow palace. That prompted a shower of commissions to paint portraits of a champion rabbit, fine show horses, and even a pet parakeet whose owner fondly explained she had raised it from an egg. A painting of his horse was requested by a renowned television actor singer who was also a recording artist. He was also commissioned to do a portrait of the winning black angus. He comments that it sometimes beats painting people portraits, the subjects don't kick usually.

There is a new director of the gallery and museum of a big university in Santa Clara who was a former director of a big museum in San Jose and she took on the job a month ago succeeding a reverend who died early last month. She is also a renowned artist who exhibited nationally and locally at the palace of the legion of honor.

It is at a gallery in San Francisco where a local sculptor will be exhibiting his work. Thirty works of his covering neo classical to highly abstracted forms will be exhibited in the gallery. He is a highly talented artist who is also a writer and photographer apart from conducting a ballet school. Starring in the movie spectre of a rose is this man. From one famous museum will originate the exhibit consisting of more than 200 objects, sculptures, paintings, prints, and books coming from a private collection.

The collection of a couple from Pennsylvania covers a span of 50 years. What it consists of include scores of other historic greats plus the works of a dozen well known painters. When he was still a student of Harvard the husband began to collect books but he was able to expand his collection to include many of the more valuable objects which he buys on installment.

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