Pet portraits
Bruno
A coloured pencil portrait of a boxer dog, commissioned as a memorial piece from the owner's phone photos.
- Medium
- Coloured pencil
- Surface
- Stonehenge paper
- Size
- 30 × 42 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Time
- About 30 hours over three weeks
- Made
- From a photograph
- Subject
- Pet portraits
Bruno passed away shortly before this commission was placed. His owners sent a folder of phone photographs and, together, we chose the one with his characteristic head tilt.
Pet portraits need the same attention as human ones: the eyes carry the likeness, and the fur is rendered strand by strand so that the texture reads correctly from across the room.