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The difference between human portraiture and animal portrait painting is that while humans don't mind posing, most animals do. Keeping the animal's attention from wavering is a total workout for an artist. One female artist from Wilmington specializes in this particular field. She is also a Delaware, which is a prominent family locally. She has a grandfather who is a painter famous for his collection of sea and landscape paintings. By age 3, this female artist started painting as well.

Animals became the most frequent subjects she liked to draw. At 10 she had a one man or one child show at the local library, and at 12 she was illustrating children's books. She became acquainted with the different kinds of known through the help of famous Philadelphia teachers. She did solo dance routines for several years and was known for a very convincing death scene in one of her shows.

Of all the animal portraits she has made, her main interest is dog portraits. There is just something so interesting about the way she begins her work on the dog's portrait. She does as many sketches of the dog as she can while the owner keeps the dog still.

Her pencil just seems to move like the wind over her sketchpad as she looks for the most characeteristic pose for her model. She compliments the dog on his appearance and behavior in the meantime. She uses props to continuously hold the animal's attention and keep him interested. She gathers photos of the dog from the owner, and also asks the owner if it is possible to duplicate the pictures for her collection. Snips from the ears, tail, and tummy are collected from the dog so that she can determine the colors to use. She keeps the snips under the owner dog's name.

Then comes the selection of a pose and a composition with a suitable background. The latter is chosen based from the type of dog or animal. For the portrait of a Chesapeake Bay retriever, for instance, she sat in a duck blind doing sketches to obtain the necessary realism.

She found out that animals can have their own opinions regarding something. This was proven by a damaged painting which had been chewed upon by an American pointer who seemed to show disgust for it. His reaction cost him a heavy dosage of medication, so it's justifiable if the painting was really bad.

If she is doing a registered beagle or, a basset she frequently blends in a paw print with the scenery and on the back puts the kennel club's identifying symbols of paw and nose print. She has even obtained abstract backgrounds done with the help of her own dog's paw when he cooperates in painting. Most of the time, animals don't agree. A whole day's worth of painting was wasted when one of the models left with one of the female dogs. While this may seem natural, it also seems that the unexpected can be expected when painting an animal's portrait.

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