RESTON, Va. — Erica Eriksdotter always paints the eyes first. “The eyes are the most important part,” Eriksdotter said of her hand-painted portraits of dead or dying pets. “The eyes are the windows to ...

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The Paint Place in New York City offers classes to help owners paint the perfect pet portrait Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Photographs are a great way to capture images of your dog or cat, horse or bird. But those smartphone snaps don’t get to the essence of your prized pet the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — In the more than 50 years since Bill Carnahan created his first two paintings, he has captured thousands of picturesque old barns, landscapes and animals on canvas. Carnahan didn’t ...

Delaney, a black cat as dark and mysterious as his name suggests, winds his way through a labyrinth of canvases in Amy Roach’s home studio. He then quietly settles in a patch of sunshine among the ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- As Kat Corrigan sat at her dining room table painting a canvas, one dog rested at her feet. The family pug passed through, giving a snort. Then a cat, named Fatoosh, hopped onto the ...

Like many of their generation in the south, Tonya and Larry Smith, both 69, commissioned oil paintings depicting each of their six grandchildren, the girls wearing frilly dresses, the boys in slacks.

It was all she talked about, read about, drew. Tucked away somewhere, she still has a notebook from 1966, showing her early sketches of horses with necks like giraffes. “I guess I’ve come a ways from ...

WINNECONNE, Wis. (WBAY) — Students at Winneconne Middle School painted and traced pet portraits as part of a community service project, raising $260 for a local pet supply store and helping animals in ...

For Melissa Swensrud, a painting of her dog, Elsa, hangs in the family room of her Bethesda, Maryland home. To her, the colorful portrait captures Elsa’s sweet and curious personality shortly before ...