Porcelain Pet Portraits

New Phone Number for Porcelain Pet Portraits

We have updated our phone system and were given a new phone number. The new number to talk to us about our portraits is:

863-969-6281.

The 34th Mount Dora Arts Festival, February 7-8 2009

This weekend the 34th Annual Mount Dora Arts Festival will be held in downtown Mt dora, Florida. The show is set around the historic downtown area and is centered on the intersection of Donnelly and 5th Avenue.

We will be in the show displaying our porcelain pet portraits. Come to the show and see our work in person. To get an idea of what we do go to our website http://www.porcelainpetportraits.com/. We have an online gallery of our work and some information on how we do our porcelain portraits.

For more information on the Mount Dora Art Festival go to the Mount Dora Center for the Arts website, http://www.mountdoracenterforthearts.com/. At the website you will find directions to the show.

We recently completed two portraits of Charma, a Papillion. Charma has beautiful eyes and the distivctive ears of the Papillion. The first photograph we recieved of Charma had the top 1/3 of the ears cropped off. In Papillions', the pattern of tufts on the ears are unique to the individual, so we waited for a picture with the whole ear. The wait ended up being nine months. The pictures of Charma were worth the wait. As she grew up her ears became like the butterfly wings for which the breed is named. We did the first tile of Charma in a face on view. We put this image on a horizontal tile to show the butterfly wings of her ears.

The second tile is a 3/4 face with Charma's white chest showing over blue swirls and a field of 22k gold. She was fun to do and the images seemed to jump on to the porcelain tiles. On the weekend of January 31-February 1, 2009 we displayed our work at the Museum of Art: Ft Lauderdale National Art Show. Many people came out to support the arts and there were bunches of animal lovers. the portraits we do seem to bring in stories of pets people have known and cherished. One petite lady of maybe 5', walks Irish Wolfhounds at a rescue center out west. Instead of dragging her over the mountains, the wolfhounds seem protective and considerate of this tiny creature walking them.

Everyone seems to enjoy looking at our portraits and touching the images.

Tim