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The Dog Bark Park series began when I was asked create a portrait of Champ for the annual “Urban Wanderers” art exhibit at the Saint University Museum of Art, or SLUMA.<\/a> It is a fundraiser for Stray Rescue of St. Louis<\/a>, a group that does incredible work rescuing, rehabilitating and adopting animals from what are often terrible circumstances. Champ is a bit of a celebrity<\/a> with thousands of Facebook followers. He’s a beautiful Akita and I was honored to draw him. I decided to use an iPad and Apple Pencil for the project. I worked from a photograph that captured his curious and engaged expression. Using Procreate<\/a>, I worked in multiple layers to build up his fur. The background was ‘painted’ in my favorite app, the underrated and extremely powerful OmniSketch<\/a>. Final touches are done in another great photo editing app, Snapseed.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m happy to say that my picture of Champ was purchased by his owners, so in a sense, it was rescued, too. Sensing that maybe I was onto something, I did a portrait of our dog, Bruno, the Welsh Corgi. Next came a commission for Gemini. More requests came in and I’m now going to be selling my dog portraits. If you’re interested, send me a note on my contact page<\/a> or go directly to my Etsy page<\/a> and click the ‘Request Custom Order’ button to order a custom pet portrait.<\/p>\n