The Artist's Best Friend

Sandra Huston

My best canine friend is our beloved chocolate lab, K-C. Her portrait is featured in a place of honor, at the top of my pet portrait page on my website. This 11x14 soft pastel painting was completed when she was six years old and painted on gray tinted velour pastel paper. It was a joy to paint this particular portrait of her with all the different colors highlighted on her fur as she sat in the setting sun. She is now 11 years old and showing more white hairs around her muzzle and paws each day, but is still beautiful to us. My husband calls her my constant shadow, following me out to the barn each day, and curling up by my rocking chair when I read in the evenings. If I am working at the computer she is sleeping on her dog bed behind me in our office. Even in my studio while painting, you will find her napping at my feet and always runs to the door eagerly, if she hears "OK girl, time to take a break, let's go for a walk." K-C is the seventh dog my husband and I have owned and raised, each of the animals that have come into our lives throughout the past 30 years continues to weave a special place in our hearts. The love and bond between humans and animals are very unique and that special bond is the reasons I have been painting commissioned pet portraits since 1990. Through my portriats my clients display the love and bond that they have developed with their animal companions and keep these cherished memories alive for a lifetime.

K-C
by Sandra Huston
11" x 14" pastel
NFS

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