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"I am mesmerized by the pet paintings you have done. How did you ever figure out how to paint their souls?" Deborah C.

bassett hound custom oil dog pet portrait painted with love

Custom Oil Portrait
Carol and Freckles, October, 1973
18x14 inches / oil on panel
SOLD
 
  
 
 
 
This was quite a lot of fun to paint.  Working from an old photograph from 1973, I'd color corrected it in my mind's eye while painting, lowered the roofline, raised the ground level, moved the left window toward the center more, and added a third window in order to improve the composition. Such a nostalgic painting and my client is absolutely thrilled with it, saying I captured her and Freckles even better than the photograph!  
 
To commission your custom oil portrait kindly email me at jeanneillenye@sbcglobal.net
 


2 comments:

Molly the Airedale said...

Your work is just fabulous♥

JEANNE ILLENYE said...

Thank you SO much! This was quite a feat to capture this much refined detail in such a small painting, but I was just loving the retro feeling of it, the sunshine and of course the love between Carol and Freckles.


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taste testing, meeting Teddy, sitting pretty

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...and one of my beautiful boys

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...and our other big boy

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my constant companion in the garden whom we lost to cancer this past spring