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Month: July 2023

Art of Leisure Paintings

Paintings
Happy, adopted 2019

Art of Leisure has always been circling around home and the leisure lifestyle in Sonoma and Napa Valley.  This naturally includes the physical structure of a home, the spirit of its occupants including pets, surrounding gardens, and the thriving wine country community.  Below, you will see my oil paintings of pets, very much a part of a healthy and happy home life.  Our four footed friends are an important element of our lives, as noted by artists and authors over the centuries.

For many years, I have endeavored to help the shelter pet community.  Many afternoons, I would visit the shelter, sit with an animal, paint a plein air painting of it and share a print with the person who eventually gave it a new home.  This practice developed into the creation of my Shelter Pet Cards, sold at such shops as:

Now I am bringing this service to those who would like to memorialize a moment in their and their pet’s life.  Hopefully, a delightful, happy occasion in which I can help bring your pet to life in a pet portrait painting.

Animal Paintings
Bella

 

Pet Paintings
Buttercup, adopted 2015

 

Pet Portraits
Charley, adopted 2019

 

Dog Paintings
Black Dog, adopted 2015

 

Cat Paintings
Emily, adopted 2017

 

Consignment Pet Portraits
Gibbs, adopted 2018

 

Animal Art
Jack, adopted 2019

 

Cat Art
Jewel, adopted 2019

 

Cat Paintings
Mariah, adopted 2019

 

Dog Portraiture
Maui, adopted 2019

 

Cat Portraiture
Miss Emmy, adopted 2017

 

Painting of your pet
Oliver, adopted 2015

 

Peaches, adopted 2019

 

Pinky Pie, adopted 2019

 

Rigo, adopted 2015

 

Sadie, adopted 2019