I got an email request a few days ago to do a pet portrait. A man wants me to paint a portrait in acrylics of his cat. He found my portrait of Maynard, "Maynard in Pink Basket" (above) on my website and said his cat happens to look a lot like Maynard. What makes this an interesting portrait request is that he wants me to paint this portrait on a fiberglass instrument case. I have never painted anything on this type of surface so I had to ask some of my other professional artist friends what they know about painting on fiberglass. I didn't want to run into the problem of doing a painting on an unstable surface only to have the paint come off. Apparently I need to sand the surface down before doing the painting. Another option would be to do this portrait on a regular paper surface then get it silk screened and turned into a decal that could be put on the client's instrument case. I have yet to contact this potential client yet, so I will be doing that this week.
Today was the monthly meeting of the Vine Arts Leaque at my church, the Vineyard. I volunteered to do a new project. I am going to do a larger color illustration that will be a banner that will be placed in the Welcome Center of the church. The basic design has already been worked out, I just need to "tweek" it a bit and do the final version in colored pencil & turpenoid. It will have a watercolor look to it. I have posted above a thumbnail rough version of this illustration which I will use to make the final 4 X 11 version.
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No wonder he wants to hire you! That fur is GORGEOUS!!!
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