Colorful dog portraits in Cape Town

I was contacted by Michelle to do commission paintings of her beautiful dogs. Since I love painting any living being, of course I agreed:)

These are the pictures that were sent to me.

Initially we were thinking of ding the portraits in mild colors using mostly, white, grey, blue, brown. And this is what it looked like:

Although I loved this look and had tremendous fun painting these boys. Michelle sent me this picture and asked if I could make the portraits look like this, since she loves everything of this painting:

I will admit that it was very hard for me to actually change the look of the paintings- as I really loved it. The next challenge was to understand how to get the feel that comes out of this painting. I tried different brushes and palette knife- but it just did not work. And then it stroked me - I had to use my fingers!!! It was a extremely messy stile for me, but extremely fun too:)

And here is the result!

We are very pleased with the result:) Happy ending!

The portraits are acrylic on canvas, 56 x 71cm each.

Cheers, Ritma

Alla Prima whale painting

I had some oil paint left after finishing the latest portrait painting. There was some paint left on my palette. I am generally a stingy person and could not let the paint go to waste.

One of my friends really loves whales and I had a small, plain canvas that I keep at home for those "just in case" moments.

So this is the result 10x10inch Alla Prima (wet-on-wet) oil painting of a Southern Right Whale.

Family portrait commission in oil

This beautiful family commissioned a portrait for Christmas. It was delivered to them on 23.December, 2015 :)

I was smiling through the whole process of painting... well most of it:)

Size: 70x91cm (30x36inch)

Pet portraits on urns - Flaura pets

I have teamed up with Flaura Pet Funeral services and came up with a unique product- a portrait urn.

Losing a pet is always hard and painful and funerals are never fun. However memories are different story. We want to remember our pets and some people prefer to keep pets ashes. The Portrait urn is a very personalized urn to keep your beloved pets ashes.

The portrait of the pet is painted on the clay urn where the ashes later are stored. Here are some of the portrait urns that I have done:

Urns can be ordered via www.flaurapets.co.za

what is she thinking?

I had so much fun painting this fresh portrait. Oil on canvas.

I love this portrait a lot! this is none of the unclaimed portraits that was ordered from overseas. It was posted to Europe and sent back as it was not collected from the post office. It cost me some money, since I never took deposit on it. Since then I am always asking for deposit on the commission work.

Portrait artist in Cape Town - whats new

Hi!

Wow, it has been quite a bit of time since my last entry in this blog. I have since taken permanent employment position that implies 8 hours working days and leaves much less "painting time" than I would like to have and what I was used to. My bank account however feels a bit better :P


We also have moved to Milnerton as we bought a property here- loads of work!


I do still paint though:)

kids portraits, Cape Town

Sweet couple portrait

Its been busy! I have not painted much, but here is one of my favorite works so far:)

This is a sweet, young couple that we are friends with. He ordered it as a first wedding anniversary gift for her:).