Art Wortd Coop

Well Andy is in the news a lot lately. Anyone up for a road trip to Reno? If you are in that neck of the woods be sure and drop by the Nevada Museum of Art and check out Andy Warhol's Dream America exhibit. The exhibit focuses on his printmaking career and runs from January 20 through May 27.

Twenty years after his death Warhol has never been more popular, his portrait of Brigitte Bardot, recently sold for $10.3 million, more than double its estimated price.


Factory Girl is opening here in Dallas this weekend and I know where I will be on Sunday. From every thing I read it promises to be not a very fun romp in the park, but what the heck. Warhol's longtime friend Brigid Berlin is said to have been so taken with Guy Pearce's portrayal of Andy that she gave him a gift of her recorded phone conversations with Andy. Click here for more on that story.

Brook Mason has written a terrific article for the New York Sun about dog art fetching top prices. According to Mason three New York auction houses are offering up 19th century paintings, porcelain and bronze pieces that celebrate man's best friend. The article goes on towards the end to discuss the current popularity of dog portrait commissions. Some well known oil artists garner commissions upwards of thirty thousand dollars a painting.
Check it out at The New York Sun.

If you can't make it to the New York auctions and you want to bone up on dog art history check out the offerings below from Amazon:

Today was a very busy day. I finalized 3 portraits and updated 3 clients. I really like the way Daphne & Dobie (above) have turned out. Sometimes clients that are ordering more than one portrait have a tough time visualizing how their pieces will look together so I find it helpful to do a quick design mock up of the pieces hanging. This client had indicated that their artwork would be hanging on a sage green wall. While my version of "sage" may differ from their "sage" and their couch may be brown leather, I think the overall impact of seeing the pieces side by side may help. Doing a mock up takes a little extra time and yet if it helps the client visualize and come to a choice quicker then it is all worthwhile. Ha, and then there is always the chance it will confuse things further .... you just never know.

2/10 : On a side note Daphne and Dobie's humans just picked up their artwork and they were thrilled. Yay ... they are a sweet couple that live in our neighborhood. The artwork is a Valentines present.

Our painterly style artwork of Max the Moosh was chosen for the cover of Nashville Paw Magazine. I just got my issue today and he looks great. Nashville Paw is a terrific well written publication from editor Heather Davis. Most cities have some type of free pet related magazine supported by local advertisers. Some of these fun mags are sort of light on writing and heavy on ads. This is not the case with Nashville Paw. Not only is the magazine packed with original content, the writing is compassionate and it covers issues all pet lovers should care about. My favorite article in this issue is titled "Better with age. The joys of adopting a senior pet". Check out this labor of love on-line and subscribe to Nashville Paw. Our thanks to Heather for including our artwork in this terrific issue.

On a side-note Max is a handsome American Bulldog that I created artwork for back in 05. His sister Trixie was also immortalized at the time, and she is shown below.