Custom portraits of four-legged family members
Original animal paintings
— from fauna to Fido —
by artist Aimée Hoover
Meet Juliet Juliet, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and fuzzy member of the lovely Hyatt family, is the latest pooch to enter the dog gallery. She’s also the first Cavalier I’ve ever painted, and the first round format I’ve ever used. Somewhat appropriate for Leap Day. Here’s her portrait being created from start (to middle, [...]
Q: When is a Goat more than a goat? A: When it marks the beginning of a new artistic direction for zee dog arteest… At the end of 2011, subsequent to some long discussions with myself (a life coach, my husband, my sisters, the UPS man), I made the decision to start painting for myself [...]
Happy new year! I hope you are enjoying the fresh, clean slate of 2012. And speaking of fresh, meet Miki & Mugsy. They’re the first pups to enter the this year… “Aimée, I’m sooooo loving my portrait. It’s hard to explain to folks why a painting is so much better than a photograph, but when [...]
The latest winner of the 140 minute portrait contest finally touched down in Kentucky! Meg was nice enough to snap some great unveiling pics for ya’ll… “I still love, love, love it!! It’s definitely our girl…though the portrait is even more wonderful in person. My husband (who is Olive’s favorite person in the universe) agrees [...]
Olive, the winner of the 10th 140 minute free portrait contest, is finished! Here’s how her portrait developed, step by step… And here’s the larger version… Thanks, as always, for reading my blog…
After almost 12 years of painting pets, this is my very first attempt at documenting the entire portrait process on video. I hope to get better at it in the future, but in the meantime please enjoy this first go at it, starring Tati… Thanks for watching!
Congratualtions…Olive and Meg! You’ve won a free 140 minute custom portrait! This was Meg’s entry description of Olive: “This is Olive, a hound mix adopted from the city shelter. She ended up there after being shot by her previous owner during a domestic dispute. Olive apparently spent her first year and a half of life [...]
Let the 10th Free 140 Minute Custom Dog Portrait Contest begin! I even made a little logo to mark the occasion… If you were following me on twitter back in 2009, you might recall that I came up with the idea of attempting to paint a pooch in under 140 minutes, inspired by twitter’s 140 [...]
This year I set two personal records: – Most portraits painted in a single year – Consequentially, most Starbucks imbibed by a single hominoid All 2010 portraits are below, but for those of you who have given up scrolling for the new year, here’s the recap in video… Hedgehogs ahoy! Surprise…Giraffe! Thank you to all [...]
Handsome Rickee (with his devilish grin) above was my final portrait of 2010. Here’s how he developed on canvas, step by step… “Rickee was on death row at a county animal shelter with a tag on his kennel labeling him as agressive when through the grace of a special dog rescuer he was bailed out. [...]