Featured in the Toronto Star Article, "Good Boy, Now Sit for a Portrait" - April 2, 2009
I met with a great reporter, Francine Kopun, a few weeks ago to be interviewed for a feature article that she was writing about dog portrait paintings.
Although I knew that it would be in print within a week, I opened my email today and received congratulations from friends who were kind enough to tell me that they had already bought me few copies, as the Toronto Star is one of the most read newspapers in Ontario.
Kopun writes not only about contemporary dog paintings and dog portraitists, but also includes a bit of history of dogs in art.
This portrait of Winston, an English Bulldog, was featured in the article. It is painted in acrylic on stretched canvas 12 x 16 and available as a limited edition print from www.thecanvasdog.comHere is an excerpt:
An artist since she was old enough to hold a spoon and draw pictures in her oatmeal, Nina Otulakowski began her career after deciding to paint her own Australian shepherd. Since then, animal portraiture has become the focus of her artistic life.
Before she paints, Otulakowski likes to spend an hour or two in the company of the dog and its owner to find out whether her subject likes treading water or curling up on a cushion.
"What does the dog like to do? Does the dog have other dog friends? What does the dog mean to the owner?" These are some of the questions she likes to answer.
