There is a big problem faced by this lady portraitist from Pasadena each time she comes in to paint her most unpredictable muses.
These well bred subjects will never pose as patiently and politely as mother would for whistler. Ever anticipating to be free to do his thing, a typical client would only let the lady artist examine his built and features for some short minutes until he leaves after he signals with a brief yet loud bark or perhaps a well mannered scratch at a flea biting his imagination.
The best manner of capturing dogs into her portraits is with the help of an instant camera and she does so at the second floor of her nice 67 year old home which she and her husband stay in.
With the many cats and dogs she has worked with, she has come to learn that there are subjects that pose better than other animals. These better posers are the highly trained show breeds who seem to be downright vain about their appearance.
The bulk of her clientele are thoroughbred. Mongrels are harder to paint than thoroughbreds who have a more distinct coat color and skeletal structure.
Purebred hounds which have defined body structure and short hair, are her favorite muses. She also adores their marvelous expression and likes to capture those.
She works at the local observatory as technical illustrator during the week and is also a well known water color landscape artist. Her most renowned works of art can be found in a popular gallery.
In an art institute found in New York, she learned how to be an excellent magazine illustrator. In fact, she tried her paints on dog after the prodding of one teacher.
She was very much into animals anyway, so she began to go around New York's many dog shows, studying and sketching carefully the best of the breeds with her own two eyes.
Her first commission was to create a portrait of a dog owned by a New York based dowager. Soon after an elaborate and elegant framing, the felice signed dog portrait stood next to the original works of art done by Frans Hals and Rembrandt, adding more beauty to the lady dowager's art collection hall.
Successfully, she launched a book that did not only have sketches but also great descriptions and studies of every breed listed by the American kennel club after.
In the home they moved into 23 years ago, into a 1913 Pasadena craftsman's house found in California was a perfect artist studio found on its second floor.
She is the best person to consult with when it comes to immortalizing the beautiful pet dogs of loving pet owners.
She enjoys using pastels to create works of art from her canine models even as she can also paint them in oil and charcoal. More than what she can handle, she gets flooded with work during the Christmas season.
Once in a while, these pooch muses are flattered by this portraitist as any human being painter would.
Along with her husband, a retired electrical engineer, she has been raising dogs known as salukis, purebred hounds with bloodlines reach back to ancient Persia and Egypt.
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