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…
And the Winner Is!
March 16, 2011 By 14 Comments
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 [...]
Free Dog Portrait Giveaway #10!
March 11, 2011 By 7 Comments
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 [...]
Tallulah Portrait Delivered
June 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
The latest twitter portrait of Tallulah, a loveable American bulldog, has finally made its way home to New York. Hope you enjoy these great unveiling pics courtesy of Jenah (@parrisreddog on twitter), “Lulu’s’ owner. AIMEE!!!!!! It is BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Like stunningly so! I think I forgot how good your work is, and then for it to [...]
New Twitter Portrait Tallulah
May 20, 2010 By 6 Comments
Meet Tallulah! She’s a sweet American bulldog and was the winner (along with her human, Jenna) of last December’s twitter portrait contest. Yes, it’s taken me over five months to get to her, but Talullah is finally finished. A big thank you to all my tweeps, especially Jenna, for your patience! Here’s her portrait being [...]
2009: Twitter portraits in review
January 6, 2010 By 9 Comments
Whaddah year When I held the first twitter portrait contest back in March of 2009, it wasn’t a portrait giveaway, per se. It was just a request for dog photos for a little painting experiment I was conducting. I wanted to see if I could paint a dog “study” in 140 minutes. Just one of [...]
December's twitter portrait winner!
December 18, 2009 By 7 Comments
Congratulations…@parissreddog! You’ve won a free 140 minute custom portrait of Tallulah! A note about why I chose parrisreddog’s photo Unless you are a pro photog with great studio lighting, natural light works better 99% of the time for painted portraits. Tallulah happened to be that rare capture that fell into the other 1%. I struggled [...]
Bud's portrait arrives!
November 12, 2009 By 11 Comments
Bud’s portrait was actually delivered a day early and caught Dianne by surprise. She sent me these tweets before she cracked it open: Then she grabbed a sharp knife and got to work! Hello Aimée!! First of all let us say thank you so very very much!! We love the portrait!! We cannot believe our [...]
Maddie’s portrait arrives
November 6, 2009 By 11 Comments
Here’s Maddie and her biped, Mitzi, unwrapping their new portrait! Dear Aimee: You are truly amazing! Words can not express the emotion that my husband and I feel looking at the portrait of Maddie. You completely captured her eyes which are the gateway to her wonderful soul and spirit. The photos of the painting don’t [...]
Bud’s portrait finished!
November 3, 2009 By 9 Comments
October’s free, 140 minute twitter portrait winner is fini! This is Bud: I can’t lie to you guys. I went a little over the 140 minute limit…by about 20 minutes. But Maddie took about 2 hours even so I figured I had some rollover minutes from last month. Here’s Bud as he developed on canvas, [...]