Commissioned paintings of people, pets, homes, cars and landscapes to name a few created in your choice of several mediums: oil on canvas, pastels on sandpaper and graphite (pencil). Interested people can go to my website @ www.artworkbybarb.com for a commission of your favorite person or pet, etc.
When this old girl's owner saw the painting, she got very emotional. Breyer is still around, but getting on in years. I tried to capture her expression and personality in this oil painting. It's my hope that when Breyer is gone, she will be comforted when looking at her portrait.
This is the second time I've done a graphite of the Mom. The first time was when she was with her dad as a little girl. Now I've done a piece with her daughter, and another generation is born.
Sweetie is no longer with us, but my client said the nicest thing when she got this painting: "You truly captured Sweetie. I felt like I could pick her up and take her off the painting, it brought me to tears... You make our pets seem like they never left us." I couldn't ask for a nicer way for someone to say they love the art.
I got the photo for this painting from a high school classmate. This is her daughter and grandson. I very much like the story it's telling, as well as the late afternoon lighting.
Meet Bogart. His owner brought him to my house for me to take pictures of so I could do a painting. I've never had such an easy photo session! This dog was completely focused on his owner the entire time. (Who happened to be holding a tennis ball!!) I've never seen such a level of loyalty and love that this dog had for his owner...and visa versa. I strived to portrayed that in Bogart's expression.
