Helping a friend grieve a loss of his best friend.
The painting has a lot more detail than you see here, since it's 24"x30". It's scary to post a painting of someone's dog when they just passed. You never know how someone will react- especially since I post it publicly (I put the hours in - worked on it for 2 days, and need to post something for my daily art). He sent me back a video, saying it made his day.
I've surprised friends before when people or pets have passed.... Not everyone's ready to see a painting. Some are comforted by the fact that their special someone has been immortalized. One girl asked me to delete my post (despite that I didn't tag her on it) -- she didn't want anyone to know her father had died.
Another friend was grateful, but wasn't ready to have it on his wall- that came 2 years later, and he still couldn't hang it up... it was still too paintful. More time had passed, and now he says that painting is his prized posession.
I kind of specialize in dog art- despite that you see me posting everything else.
It was also scary to create this because I don't have reference of what his dog looked like as a puppy - I had to look at his dog's photos, and guess what he looked like as a puppy. Funny story-- I got the ears wrong... I gave him the same ears that he had as an adult - which, turned out perfect, because he only had floppy ears for a very short time, and he had giant perky ears the rest of the time... My friend told me that they were his hallmark, he looked like a little rabbit. So-- that's a cool thing about art- I did not get the 6 week old picture correct.... but it turned out better that way, because I gave him the trait that he was known for his whole life.
This friend, who just saw on FB the painting I made him, messaged me back and said "I'm ready for that! I want that on my wall!" - so... glad I put my fears aside.
Muy hermoso tu pintura, se ve muy tierna. Amo a los perros me encanta la forma en que ellos transmiten todo su amor hacia nosotros, muchas veces se hacen dueños de todo nuestro ser y hacen que vivamos la vida junto a ellos. La historia que cuentas es realmente encantadora y triste por otro lado, considero que en la vida todos tenemos una oportunidad de oro y debemos aprovecharla. Dios bendiga tu arte y la manera en que le llegas a las personas a mantener sus recuerdos activos y con mucho amor.
Saludos.
Muchas gracias por sus amables palabras. Realmente lo aprecio. Todo este trato con perros que pasan me ha recordado que extraño tener un perro. Han pasado 11 años desde mi último. Son muy mágicos Tengo una gran vida, pero me falta un perro. Hurra por Google Translate ... y si mis oraciones se leen graciosas, culpo a Google Translate.
You did a couple amazing jobs; helping friend with painting and sharing the arts work. keep your creative work.
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Beautiful art style and color. And this artwork is invaluable as it's a great and meaningful gift !
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The comments from curators are for information and encouragement. The upvotes from nTopaz and rankings are based on the popularity of your art work when posted to the nTopaz platform. Join nTopaz Discord ChannelI had the opportunity to do something similar for someone a little while back. Their chocolate lab of 16 years had passed away so I pieced something together from a few half decent photos to get a nice pose and to be sure I had the features right. I can imagine it's good to have something that will live on to memorialize these animals long after their gone. I've been thinking about my own two labs lately and how they're getting up there in age. Sadly, they'll have their own paintings eventually - hopefully not for a few more years, though.
Made a painting for my little bro's dog when he passed... Made one (retroactively) of my dog that passed (since-- why paint everyone else's dogs and not honor my own?), Haven't had a dog since 2008... Really want to... but, I value my zany freedom - same reason I don't have a kid, I suppose. i've come to accept that dog-painting (and human painting) is a gift... because in a sense, you help those that pass live on forever... they are immortalized as art. Now, that said... it certainly helps to have talent-- as you clearly do. Nobody wants to have a shitty painting on their wall forever.. that kind of tarnishes the memory of the loved ones, despite the best intentions. Your lab painting is spectacular. I love the velvety effect of the fur... And that you leveraged many photos to create the one image... I too do that, and am shocked at how many artists only replicate the image that they are given. Wow, 16 years is a lot of great memories.
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