A dog portrait in the Ink & Watercolor style
A lively ink drawing of your pet with transparent washes of color and plenty of white paper, printed on canvas, from $69.
What Ink & Watercolor does with a dog. A quick ink line of varying weight finds the head, the ears and the eyes, then loose washes of color go over and past it, with plenty of white paper left in. It reads like a page from a sketchbook, and it keeps the markings exactly.
The photo. Daylight, eyes in focus, taken at the dog's own eye level rather than from above. A three-quarter view paints better than straight on. For a black dog, skip the flash — the highlights do the work.
The size. 16×20 in a hallway or beside a bookshelf; 24×36 above the sofa. Big dogs look right big.
How to start. Upload one photo and see it painted in Ink & Watercolor free, in about 20 seconds. Your first three paintings are free; leave an email for as many more as you like, and change up to five details free. A person checks the full-resolution proof, and you see it before anything prints; if it isn't right, we repaint it until it is.