Animal Portraits

Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill, “Oil painted animal portraits make an amazing gift or way to memorialize your animal companions. Like my people portraits, I ask for a high-quality photo to identify the desired pose.  I also need several additional photos to gain an overall impression of a subject.  Each subject is painted with multiple layers with base colors and successive translucent layers or additional colors to provide depth and dimensionality.   I like to paint in convincing detail that sometimes requires painting with a magnifying glass and a paintbrush with just a few bristles.   It takes about 6 weeks to paint a portrait, due to the multiple layers and drying times.  Portraits can have a museum wrap or in a standard thickness, ready for you to frame.

This image is a painting of my cat, C-Dub. She is gone now, but the painting reminds me of the enjoyment she brought to me.

Do you have any special animals that you want memorialized in an oil painting?”

8 x 10 - $495 11 x 14 $1495 16 x 20 - $1950