Pet Portraits by Northern Virginia Artist Kelly Campbell

Pencil drawing, client had me change the clothes into show clothes

watercolor dog portrait

Acrylic cat portrait

As a northern Virginia artist, one of the things I love doing most are pet portraits. Over the years I have been asked to do all kinds of dogs, kitties, and horses-- unfortunately most of them under sad circumstances as a memory of a pet lost. Some though, have been as gifts to celebrate the living.

Want a portrait of your own? My 8 x 10 single subject portraits start at only $60.

please take a look on my website for more samples of my work and to contact me.

Watercolor: In Love with Gouache

"What's 'gouache'?" You may be asking. Well gouache is a type of watercolor. I love it because I think it has the best of both worlds with typical watercolor, and acrylic (also another form of watercolor), in that gouache is still workable after it dries like watercolor, but has a white pigment like acrylic and can be very opaque.

In this recent painting of mine from my original photo, I decided to take more of a translucent approach, but used the white pigment in parts of the nest. The only dowfall to the white is that it can "muddy up" easily, so I reccommend still trying to use the white of the paper as your true white in the piece.

You can buy this piece and other gouache pieces of mine online or at my studio Kelly's Artbox in Occoquan, VA.