Springer Spaniel dog painted in acrylics

DUDLEY
9" X 12" on 3mm Gessobord

Commission details:

PORTRAIT COMPLETED:
August 2016

A lady contacted me to create a portrait of Dudley as a gift to her Mum for Christmas. They had a favourite photo of Dudley that they wanted me to use as the reference image. It was a fantastic composition, but the photo was so small that zooming in to view the small detail, saw the image pixelate.

Reference image:

This portrait was created from a mock up of 3 photos to create the composition. The original photo was extremely small and the image pixelated when zooming in. The customer sent me some larger photos of Dudley which were taken in natural light. These demonstrated his rich brown tones and small markings, which allowed me to create the portrait.

Customer Testimonial:

" Hi Karen, Sorry that I haven't been in touch sooner, it's been hectic since Christmas!
Just wanted to let you know that mum loves her portrait and we all cried our eyes out when we first saw it.
What you've done is so special and we couldn't have asked for a better painting to remember him by. It captures his brilliant personality so well.
I'll definitely be recommending you to my spaniel loving friends! Andrea xx "

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