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Why Do You Paint Pets & Animals?

1/16/2019

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PictureSusie & loved pet 'Blacky'
People often ask me, "Why do you choose pets and animals as primary subjects for art?”
 

The quick answer is that I love painting pets and animals. I love to see them in my home and I love handing a newly finished pet portrait to its owner. However, their appeal as art subjects grew throughout my lifetime.
 
As a toddler I had a little dog I adored, I called Blacky.  He died before I turned 5 and I guess I cried for days, so my parents didn’t want any more pets. I think I felt a bit pet starved after that.  I married after college and began to gather a pet family around us. Over the past 48 years of marriage many breeds of dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, fish, birds, turtles, goats, and horses filled our home and barn. As a result, I became familiar with their coats, colors and contours and loved them all. Of course,  life patterns do change.

After retiring, and in our ‘golden years’ we discovered the difficulties of caring for so many pets. Then, as each one sadly passed away,  we lived with fewer and fewer around. We decided to become a one pet family.  Currently we have our bouncy Boxer rescue girl named Josie. However, I also missed the others and wished for the liveliness & ‘life’ they’d brought into our home.

Within a year of retiring, I started painting our pets on coasters, which gave me an idea.  I decided to paint as many pet and animal portraits as possible; to keep me surrounded by their wonder faces and presence. Now our walls drip with their presence and I love them all over again. Some pet portraits are of our own pets. Others perhaps illustrate wishes of pets we’d love to have. Some remind me of very special pets who have passed on. Once again I feel surrounded by their life and unconditional love. I enjoyed this so much that I could not have predicted what happened next.

As I created pet paintings for myself and showed them to my friends and family, they began asking me for portraits of their pets and for those of family and friends. This became my delightful addiction as I discovered the happiness my pet portraits brought to these pet families. As a result of all these things, pets and animals remain my primary art subjects.

Footnote:
The sad truth about pets is that they rarely outlive us. While they live with us they bring life, joy, some craziness and unconditional love into our homes. When they pass away, we miss them.  I continue to paint pets or animals for myself and others because I hope to offer happiness for those with living pets, and warm memories that will last a lifetime.

If you are interested in a pet portrait for yourself or a loved one, please think of me. I’d love to help give you the lasting memory you’ll cherish forever.

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Wishing you warm hugs and wet sloppy pet kisses.
​Susie Caron
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You're Not Too Old for New Adventures

1/7/2019

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Think you’re too old for this?
​Susie E Caron


Do you ever think like this: “I’m too old to start something new.”  I want to encourage you to change your mind and launch the next thing that’s in your heart. 

Our daughter surprised us with a new thing one recent Christmas day - she played “What Child Is This” on the violin. We found this exciting because she is a beginning violinist at 38 years of age.  We’d had no idea she’d begun taking lessons. She’d kept her newest adventure a secret so she could surprise us with her gift at Christmas.

Perhaps the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I’m guilty of starting new careers and hobbies too at different stages of my life. The list is long and includes teaching elementary school, directing church choir, performing a solo concert singing to benefit a school for the deaf, owning and operating a riding school, sewing trendy hats and bags for craft fairs, going to grad school at 50 years of age then becoming a licensed psychologist, and recently retiring to become a full time acrylic artist.

I’m not the only person who has started over, learning and engaging in new careers or occupations.  Many others in history continued to reinvent themselves, sometimes after being blessed; sometimes after tragedy, sometimes after simply responding to a quiet ‘message’, which replayed over and over in their hearts.  

Why not listen? God created you with many talents. Why not immerse yourself in the next adventure and follow your dream. You’ll never know where it may lead you.

Would you like some encouragement? Share what you’ve been wanting to do in the comments below. Perhaps we can encourage each other.

Hugs and Blessings. ​

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Quick, Elegant DIY Silhouette Art

1/2/2019

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Quick & Elegant DIY Silhouette Art
Susie E Caron
1/9/19


When I was about 13 years old, my Mother made me sit still in front of a strong lamp with no shade. Next she traced my silhouette onto a paper she taped to the wall behind me. She repeated this with every family member. My Mother later transformed those tracings into DIY elegant art. I can still recall the black construction paper silhouettes of each of us, carefully mounted onto white paper with red trim all around and displayed above our breakfast table windows. I didn’t realize as a teenager that years later I’d want to teach you how to create art much like those.

You can repeat what my Mother did for your own family. All you need is a strong lamp, paper and patience. (You’ll need it when you try to get a child or teen to ‘sit still’ so you can capture their profiles.)

Alternatively, I have an ‘elegant art project for you to do’ on Freebie Friday.  This project gives you or your child an opportunity to do some fun, quick, inexpensive art. The variations are endless for DIY ‘elegant art.’ You may want to hang one or more up in your own home, or give some away as gifts.

What ever you do…..have fun. Art is fun and we all deserve a little fun now and again.

Questions or comments? Let me know.
Hugs and Blessings,
Susie

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