A Pug Painting Comes to Life
This weekend my mom and I did a “Paint Your Pet” session at Canvas and Cocktails. I painted Pug, and my mom painted her Great Dane Alexa.
This location is co-owned by a rescue colleague, Lindsay. We emailed photos to her ahead of time and she sketched out our painting for us, creating a sort of “paint by numbers” guide. I chose a photo of Pug to recreate that I thought really showed his personality.
She was available to help as little or as much as you needed. I have a painting background, but my mom is not artistic at all.
Linsday is also the founder of The Feral Companion dog rescue, so we got to hang out with these sweet babies the whole day too.
The one area I did struggle with was his eyes. These were a little too crazy-eyed even for Pug!
So, Lindsay came in and touched them up for me, plus added a gleam to make them more true to life. Also, as you can tell, I took some liberties with the amount of grey I painted. Artistic license!
What do you think?
If you’re in the St. Louis area and are interested in doing a Pet Painting, check out Lindsay at Cocktails and Canvas in Cottleville (not sponsored, just a friend!). She’s a great artist to work with plus you might get to play with some puppies too.
June 29, 2016 @ 4:29 am
Wow, that’s really nice!! Congrats!! I have no artistic talent whatsoever!!
July 3, 2016 @ 10:20 pm
My mom doesn’t either, and she did quite well in this format! The owner put the finishing touches, added shading, etc to make it look “finished”. I don’t know why I didn’t get any pics of my mom’s painting (I guess because she was taking them on her phone) but it turned out really good too!
June 29, 2016 @ 10:43 am
You did a great job, what a cool idea and keepsake!
July 3, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
It’s an awesome service they provide. I was never interested in the “wine and paint” thing before, but I was all about the Paint Your Pet!
June 29, 2016 @ 11:22 am
Such amazing artistic talent, we’d love to see Kilo inspired art one day haha!
July 3, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
Aw, thank you! I have always loved painting but I haven’t done it in many years. I have small professional portraits of both dogs that was a gift from Chewy.com and I plan on doing a DIY of Molly as well in the future. 🙂
June 29, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
You did just an amazing job!!! 🙂
June 29, 2016 @ 2:49 pm
I’ve always wanted to do something like that. And I love the paint-by-numbers idea! I’d need that kind of help.
Jean from Welcome to the Menagerie
July 3, 2016 @ 10:16 pm
It was definitely helpful. Usually the hardest part is starting, and she gave me a good place to start from.
June 30, 2016 @ 1:12 pm
Nice job! We have a place like that here. I’ve been wanting to do that.
July 3, 2016 @ 10:15 pm
I would check out the studio and if you like their style, definitely go for it!
July 2, 2016 @ 8:25 pm
What a fun activity! Your painting looks beautiful!
Love & biscuits
Dogs Luv Us and We Luv Them
July 3, 2016 @ 10:14 pm
Thank you! It was tons of fun.
July 5, 2016 @ 9:00 pm
Great post. Thanks
July 12, 2016 @ 2:40 am
You’ve done a fantastic job. So talent!