http://casasugar.com/ Home sweet home. en http://casasugar.com/619826 <p>Sometimes I worry about walking that fine line between being a responsible pet owner and an obsessive pet owner. ("Your dog is wearing a backpack," my sister recently observed.) Still, that concern didn't deter me from commissioning a painting of my dog, Ozzie. Portland, Maine, artist <a href="http://www.paintsquared.com/index.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Fraser</a>, whose work I'd found on <a href="http://www.etsy.com" target="_blank">Etsy</a>, started out with a photo of Ozzie, and two weeks later, the painting arrived in the mail.<br /> <span class="inline left"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/6/61259/37_2007/dog-photogs_0.preview.jpg" alt="" title="" class="outline image preview" height="298" width="550"></span><br /> The painting's diminutive size, at at only 5x5 inches, made me feel like less of a weirdo for getting my pet's portrait commissioned. But as more of my friends saw the final result (framed and placed on my fireplace mantel) they stopped thinking that I was slightly nutty and began to realize that I was on to something really cool.</p> <p><span class="inline left"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/6/61259/37_2007/elizabeth_0.jpg" alt="" title="" class="left outline image preview" height="267" width="300"></span>Fraser, who works primarily in oils, was a delight to work with, and I thought that $75 was a major steal for an original piece of artwork of my pet. </p> <p>What do you think? Would you get artwork commissioned of <i>your</i> pet?</p> http://casasugar.com/619826#comment artists artwork dress your walls pet portraits Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:58:18 -0700 casasugar http://casasugar.com/619826