Pop Art Pet Unleashed

..And obviously to a large extent ALL of our clients are pet lovers, however some stand out more than others. Or to put it another way, some are crazier than others - of course we mean that in the nicest way!

Case in point, we are currently working on four portraits of five pets for a client coincidentally named Cat. Cat certainly qualifies of one of our craziest, pet loving clients! She loves talking about her animals and even told us how she has had all of her beloved pets over the years cremated so she can keep their urns in her home. The plan is when Cat herself passes away, and she has left specific instructions to this effect, they will all be blended and buried together. Now that’s love!

In the meantime Cat has flattered us with the task of immortalizing Rebound & Pilgrim, two lovely cats, as well as Muckluck the Malamute.

This was Cat’s reaction when she received the first three portraits:
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SATISFIED with all three pictures. My vacillation worked in my favor although you may still be getting over the jitters from my “That pic for sure, no this one, oh God I hate it, no this one, yes, definitely without-a-change-of-mind this one. Oops.”..
I saw the client proofs on your site and am convinced your latest effort for me is the best example of your excellence. :) No favoritism at all because they were my 4-legged children.
We are also working on a custom pet portrait for Cat of adorable Akita puppies, Zoey & Hachiko. It’s taking a little extra time because the original photo we had to work with required a lot of extra attention. Our artist has been diligently working to enhance the detail and capture their natural cuteness!

If someone you know is a crazy pet lover like Cat, please let them know where they can get a custom cat portrait or dog portrait created from their pet’s photos.. Pop Art Pet!

..Unless of course, the horse has been captured in a beautiful custom portrait! Then the horse becomes a one of a kind, work of art created from your photos. Did you know we also do portraits of horses? We have only had the pleasure of working with a few equines but they do make excellent subjects.

Dreamer got the whimsical, Warhol Style treatment.

Orion looks awesome,  also in Pop Art, but in this single-panel layout.

While Justin looks just amazing in one of our Traditional Style portraits.

All these custom pet portraits were created by our artists using some fantastic photos of these picturesque animals.

We love working with horses and hope to do more in the future. In the meantime, of course, we enjoy our work with dogs & cats - our bread & butter so to speak!

We have a client currently who ordered a traditional style cat portrait of the lovely Jezebel, as a gift for her friend and neighbor. She went on to explain that Jezebel used to be her cat until Jezebel, all on her own, chose to go and live next door.

Now, we’ve heard a lot of interesting pet stories around here, but this one was intriguing so I asked for the details. Here they are in Jezebel’s first mom’s own words:

“I adopted Jezebel and her sister, Sissy, from a cat rescue about 18 or 19 years ago. They were the dearest little calico litter mates you’ve ever seen. They played, ate, slept together. They looked like bookends.

I’ve always had cats and love them more than anything. Shortly after getting Sissy and Jezebel, a friend moved in who had two older cats, litter mates, male Spud, and female Jordan. They all got along fine.

The next year, I adopted a black and white female and named her Scooter. That did it for Jezebel :-) Scooter was a little kitten with lots of energy–Jezebel was three years old and thought the house that belonged to her and Sissy, was now being made crazy by Scooter.

Gradually, Jezebel would start going to Nell and Joanne’s house next door. The frequency of those visits soon increased–she wanted to go over there every day. She’d wait on their porch. On the weekend, she’d cry to be let out at the beginning of the day and immediately run to their front door. They’d take her in faithfully, they loved her from the start.

They let her in, played with her, and then brought her home at the end of the day. This process repeated itself for several months. They felt guilty that Jezebel loved them more than she loved me. These women are two of my best friends, and I knew we had to trust Jezebel’s instinct, so we discussed a more permanent living arrangement. Jezebel moved in and never looked back–she visited me, but her heart was next door :-)

Jezebel is old now, close to 19. She spends most of her days in her heated bed next to the window. She could not be more loved, her Pop Art Pet picture will be treasured.”

Our artist, possibly inspired by Jezebel’s story, came up with some eye-catching new backgrounds for this custom calico creation.

It helped that we were given carte blanche and just asked to design something as dynamic as Jezebel herself… we were privileged to do so!

Recently we were asked to create a custom, Warhol style portrait of a lively Labradoodle named Rocky.

As you can see, Rocky’s quite the rock star so the portrait had to be larger-than-life..

At 36″x48″ the completed artwork certainly fit the bill (it is way bigger than Kylie)!

By the way, Rocky’s portrait was commissioned by a generous family friend as a housewarming gift… I sure hope Rocky’s new house has lots of wall space!

If you are interested in an extra large or custom size dog portrait or cat portrait just contact us for a quote.

Every chance we get, we try and remind our pet loving clients and friends to take lots of pictures of their pets. Currently we are working with an adorable threesome of Scotties whose parents shared with us that they have a tradition of taking photos of puppy’s first bath. What a great idea!

How cute are they?!

Even if you never feel the need to have a custom pet portrait created from your pets’ photos you will never be sorry to have lots of pictures of them; and starting a tradition is a great way to remember to take more!

Here’s another suggestion, every year on their birthday take their picture with the same toy; or take a picture of your furry kid in the exact same spot outside on a beautiful day in spring, summer, fall, and winter.

You can be creative, or keep it simple. You can make it something specific and meaningful to your family, or just to you and your best friend. Just take our advice, and take your pet’s picture please - often!

In this first week of the new year we have been fortunate to hear from several of our Christmas clients with warm stories of giving and receiving the dog portraits and cat portraits we created for them. Some of them were quite touching, so we wanted to share them here..

Palmer & Cooper

My husband absolutely LOVED the picture of the dogs….he was so surprised and impressed. He actually hung it on the wall that day! I will highly recommend you guys to my friends who come over and admire it. It turned out so cute!! Thanks for all of your hard work. It definitely paid off!

Katie

I am so happy to report that my parents loved their picture of Katie! It helped her memory to live on. It was particularly touching because this was our first Christmas without out beloved little dog. You all did a great job. Thank you.

Frankie

It was just the BEST! My family is one of those crazy ones that everyone just tears in to the gifts. There are a bunch of us and a bunch of gifts and it can just get wild!
I was sitting next to my sister.. and it was about to kill me that the painting was in the back of her gift pile. She was merrily chatting and showing everyone what she was opening, then she finally got to it and opened the box. She squealed then got really quiet. When that happen everyone else just stopped and looked a her and tears were streaming down her face. She said, “Oh I saw this on the net and wanted it so badly….how did you know? This is the best gift EVER.” She elbowed her husband who was talking and didn’t really catch what was happening.
“Look at what [they] got for us, honey.” He looked over and said, “A boxer print. Oh that is so nice.” She punched him in the arm and said, “NO LOOK!”
He said, “Oh my goodness, That really IS Frankie. I can’t beleive it. How did they do that?” The he looked like he was going to cry. (I told him you had magical elves working for you….shhhh..don’t give me away!)
..Thank you so very much! I know we will be working together again!

Of all the Christmas presents we created for our clients this season, the biggest by far was a Pop Art people portrait. [Did you know we did people too? Check out our other site, popartgo.com.]

Jason sent an adorable photo of his wife & daughter, and wanted the portrait to be a really, REALLY, big surprise for the whole family!

Here’s the portrait, before we stretched it (check out the dollar bill for scale)..

And after we stretched it, just ready to ship..

Wow! The finished dimensions were 36″x42″, which was gi-nourmous, and from what we heard it was a really BIG holiday hit!

We hope all our Christmas portraits made for wonderful gifts this year and wish to thank all our clients who included us in their celebration; we hope we had just a small part of making them happy and bright!

Happy Holidays!

Two of our current, Christmas clients are a couple of beautiful English Cocker Spaniels. Biondina, which means blondie in Italian, and Bruna, which means brunette. This is the layout we started with for their custom Pop Art Style dog portrait.

We couldn’t help but think they look like they could be in a shampoo commercial with all that shiny hair so we started calling them our supermodel clients.

We asked their mom what they were like, if they had the attitude that comes with the hair and the good looks, she said:
“They have quite different personalities. Biondina is more passive and very sensitive. She is the sweeter of the two. She is ball-obsessed and loves men!! Although Bruna is smaller, she is the dominant one. She is clearly the boss and once she decides something is hers, she will not let Biondina anywhere near it (bones in particular). She is rather small for a cocker but has the deepest growl and bark. You’d think she was a German Shepherd. Bruna is more spunky. She doesn’t walk, she bounces. Bruna prefers to cuddle with me, whereas Biondina is obsessed with my husband.”

So maybe Blondes do have more fun while Brunettes are all business! By the way, Bruna & Biondina are English Cocker Spaniels in the truest sense - they live in London! (Did you know we accept international orders?)

Here is one of Bruna & Biondina’s completed proofs.

Oh, and we are also working on some Christmas cards for these gorgeous girls!

They are a very festive pair!

As the holiday madness marches on and the custom pet portrait orders continue rolling in we have noticed a trend.. the cats have taken an atypical lead over the dogs!

Not that it’s a competition, but normally our clients are far more canine than feline, so far this season however the cats are keeping up and even slightly outnumbering the dogs in custom pet portraits.

We should have seen it coming since our first holiday portrait order, which came in way back in June was for two feline friends, Riggs & Jester. Which brings me to the best part about working on so many cat portraits.. the crazy, kitty names!

So far we’ve met Texas Roy, Porkchop, and our favorite.. UhOh!

There’s still a little time to order your cat portrait, or dog portrait, or iguana portrait in time for the holidays, but we are filling up fast so don’t wait!

Visit our Holiday Ordering information page for deadlines, but remember they are subject to change!

Check out recent client, Bailey. Lucky Bailey lives in Las Vegas and at 14 years young we think he made a stunning model for his personal, custom, Warholized, portrait.

Also, you already met Tess..

Tess is also a super senior at SEVENTEEN! She goes on two thirty minute walks a day, and she looks like a super-model in her Traditional Style, adorable dog portrait.

Then there’s Kylie, our lovely, live-in senior spokesmodel. She’s 14+ and most days she’s still pretty hard to keep up with! She swims in the lap pool and still loves hikes in the high country.

Kylie is the reason we are so thrilled when we get to do portraits of senior dogs and senior cats too. And we’re thrilled that the thinking has changed, and due to better diet and better veterinary care, it is not uncommon for even big dogs to be around a decade or more.

We love seniors!