Spring Special!

To show my appreciation to my loyal clients (and make new ones!), I'm offering a HUGE discount on my custom dog art! anyone ordering a 16x20 canvas, gets it for $99 (+ shipping)! That's a $45 savings!!

Order from this link:

T Moody Designs Special

It says until December 14th, but you can order until December 31st.

Perfect for that pet lover in your life!!

Should dogs be taught manners?

The doorbell rings. Bella and Mia, my two loyal dogs, bark on cue. I let them get it out of their system, then I hush them. When I answer the door, they rush pass me and try to sniff and jump on my poor guest. Of course, I gently scold them as I pull them down and order them to leave my guest alone.

Do my dogs have bad manners? I believe so. Should owners teach their dog manners? I think so. I've seen the display of dog with no manners more times than I want to remember. I cringe as I watch an owner's dog jump, sniff, and beg for attention. All I can think of, is comparing them to a young child impatiently pulling on the pants leg of their parent while they try to talk to another adult. Do we tell the child to stop? Yes. So, why don't we tell our pets to stop?

Another Bella-custom dog art piece.

I just finished a 3 panel signature art piece for a lady in Pennsylvania. I think her dog's name is Bella like my dog.

This is one of the proofs.

She wanted hot pinks, blues, oranges, yellows, and greens. I like doing neon looking dog art and hope that these colors are to her likings.

I'm waiting on her approval and if everything looks good, I'll be sending it off to the printers.

The two other kids.

This is Bella. I did not ask for her. She was forced upon us because my daughter couldn't have her at her apartment anymore. At first, I did not think that I could handle having a large dog. She shed alot She ate alot. She barked alot. She knocked over the kids alot.

That was over a year ago and she is still with us. She grew on us over time, and she's become a great friend.

This is Mia. She was my daughter's first dog that she got when she was younger and still living at home. We didn't mean to keep her either, but she's a part of the family too and we just couldn't part with her.

Will my daughter learn her lesson and quit bringing in strays? Probably not. I better start making more room just in case.

Helping dog rescue shelters.

Spending my days designing some art for different dog rescue shelters.

I'm hoping to help by donating a % to each shelter when a print is purchased.

The Newfoundland

Another art print we feature in our store is the Newfoundland. If I had the room, I would love to have one of these dogs. They are big and beautiful. Owning one would probably feel like owning a bear. lol

Here are some Newfoundland products.

Newfoundland shirts
Newfoundland cups.

Newfoundland prints.

And Newfoundland cards.

You can find these here at my T Moody Designs dog art store.

Charlie the Hound-another dog art piece.

I've been working on a new look to add to the choice of design for commission pieces.

Here are two versions of this basset hound.

The first one is more traditional painting like, and the second one is more of the Warhol style.

I'm sending the second one out to a fellow blogger, since this is actually a photo of her dog. I'm hoping that she likes it, even though it looks like she gets artwork of her dog all the time.

You can never have too many art pieces. :)

A birthday surprise

I just finished a rush job for a woman's husband's birthday. She wanted a 24x36 canvas print. It was a hard project to do-time frame, three panel, and not the greatest photos to work with. Here are the originals:

She wanted oranges, blacks, reds, possibly some other colors, and no blues.

After a couple of hours, I finished with several proofs.

You can find the proof page here:

http://www.tmoodydesigns.com/sharon.html

If you don't have time to visit it, here are some of designs:

Here is the one she picked:

I think he'll love it!

My favorite dog art piece-Alaskan Malamute Art

This was the first dog art piece I did and one of my most popular ones. I have to say this dog art piece is my favorite, because it started it all and from there, I have done hundreds of custom and adoptable dog art.

The Alaskan Malamute is a very pretty dog. I love doing dog art pieces of this breed.
We have different products available with this dog art piece on it. A popular product is the kids tshirt that also comes in toddler and baby sizes. Or, you can order one on a mug.

We also have pillows, clocks, note cards and greeting cards, plus other shirts and house hold products with the dog art on it.

http://www.tmoodydesigns.com

Puggle Dog Art-prints, shirts, office

The puggle is such a cute new breed! They are the result of the mixture of a female beagle and a male pug. My cousins used to have a pug and I think this type of a puggle is a lot cuter-lol.

This puggle came from a dog shelter. She inspired me to do a different kind of dog art piece then my normal textures.

You can find this puggle art piece on a variety of items.

Such as beautiful puggle prints.

Puggle magnets.

Puggle sweatshirts.

Puggle shirts.

Even puggle mousepads!

There are many other items available, like puggle dog art clocks, kid's shirts, even a puggle mug!

Check out our store at either

http://www.cafepress.com/tmoodydesign

or

http://www.tmoodydesigns.com/

Lazy day.

Its raining again and now that I have my other duties caught up, I finished a painting I did for the heck of it. A gal named Steph from Carmel Indiana had contacted me the other day to ask if would like to donate an art print for their event in June called A Dog Day Afternoon. I decided I will be donating one of my Huskie prints along with a tshirt and cup. Anyway, she had sent me a photo of her two babies and I played with it a bit and sent her a copy of what I came up with. I hope she likes it!

I'm going to be famous!

Well, almost! I I received this email yesterday: Congratulations! Your work was selected for the "Gilded Palette" Exhibition and auction at the Figge Art Museum!
Yeah!!! I wasn't sure that I would be picked as one of the artists for this show since I had meant to enter it awhile back but forgot and I got a newsletter that reminded everyone that the entry deadline was pretty much the next day. BTW, this isn't an animal art exhibit. It's to do with a lady named Susan L Beningson who has an Indian jewelry collection. Here is the actual info on it:

The Artists Advisory Council (AAC) for the FIGGE ART MUSEUM is organizing an exhibit to compliment the When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L Beningson Collection exhibition showing at the Figge Art Museum from May 31 through August 24, 2008. Ten works of art will be chosen from artists currently living within 150 miles of the Quad Cities for the "The Gilded Palette" exhibit. Those pieces will then be auctioned off during The Golden Gala on May 31st to benefit the Figge Art Museum.

So, I took a deep breath of inspiration and actually did a digital painting in an hour, quickly burned it on a cd along with my artist statement thrown together and self made packaging- yes, I thought, boy, this packaging looks like crap so hopefully they look beyond it!

I threw the kids in the car and drove up to the post office and kissed my pathetic looking package for good luck and mailed it.

I then totally put it out of my mind, thinking oh well, at least I was proud of myself for actually entering some art thing that I always say I'm going to enter but never do. So, it was a TOTAL surprise to me when I opened the email. So, now I have to get it printed and framed and dropped off to the museum by the 13th. I'm so pumped over it!!

If you are local, please come visit and see all the cool art that will be there!

Finally more nice weather!

I just finished a nice traditional portrait of a beautiful dog and noticed it was getting nice outside.




We've had alot of cold, windy and rainy weather lately and I've been couped up inside not to mention, my photography shoots have been put on hold. I have a high school senior shoot that I've been trying to finish. (We started last weekend but it was too windy and cold to finish) I haven't been to the park to get some dog photos either.


So, we decided to get off the computer and have a cookout. I brought my camera out to mess around with and see if I could catch our cardinal family that hangs out in our backyard. You see, it seems that every time I see the male, I don't have my camera on me and when I run and get it, he's always gone!


Well, of course he was nowhere to be seen- I swear he is some magical bird that can do a great disappearing act! But, I still had my other models handy with their 'Not another photo, mom!'
whines. lol.

A new addition to the family!

Well, I thought we were done with our family, but then my daughter came home with a baby kitten and even though my husband swore that we only were going to have one cat, he's a softy even though he won't admit it.

Her name is 'Mama' but I think we might change it since I have a habit of calling Mia 'Little Ma-Ma' so she might get confused with both being called the same name basically. So, if you have any cute name ideas, please let me know!

A great day!

It was so beautiful out today-finally! I'm so excited because this means I can start taking photo shoots. We went to the park today to check out a few new spots for backdrops and took little Mia with of course to be our model. She was more interested in checking out the park and people then to stop and model a pose but I managed to get some good shots.

These are my favorites.

I usually can find some people walking their dogs and I usually am able to get some shots of them but there seemed to not be any dog owners out while we were there-how strange!I did finally find an adorable little toy poodle puppy and her owner was happy to let me take a shot.

Thanks! :)

Isn't she SO ADORABLE?!

Such a cute beagle!

This was a birthday gift to my clients husband. She wasn't sure about going with a pop art look or painterly style but ended up going with the painterly style. I liked the red background and this was my first experiment with that kindof background and I think it turned out well.

Her pick.

Pop art choice.

New artwork

While we are busy being snowed in here in the Midwest, I'm thankful for having art pieces to do.
(My favorite part of my business) I've included them for you to see. Both are presents that the clients are giving to love ones and I hope they enjoy them!

This is Jazz- she looks "jazzy"!

I didn't catch the name of this dog but she sure is cute!

This client ended up going with a larger print and I'm glad because these art pieces

make a big statement and should be enjoyed at a larger size if possible.

I also did a print for a review for the pampered pets site and will list the review link when I get it. I'm excited to hear her reaction!

A yucky day!

I was getting spring fever this weekend with the nice weather change and anxious to get outside and take some pics but now instead of buckets of snow, we're getting buckets of rain! I guess its better as rain then snow but not for the folks that live near the Mississippi and have to worry about flooding banks.

Mia going to her "potty spot" last week.

Today-yuck!

On a brighter side, I finally sold an art piece in my display case at Bucktown- yeah!

This piece just happens to be the very first dog art canvas piece that I did and I had decided to put it up for the heck of it.

I was wondering if I was even going to keep the case because I didnt see much business from it and wondered if there was a demand for pet art in this area. (most of my business comes from online) The director told me that the client was excited to find out that I do custom pet art and so that gave me hope to pursue it further so I ordered a bunch of new prints and canvases and I am going to change everything out to new fresh stuff so if you get a chance to go down there, Im on the 2nd floor. You cant miss me-Im the only pet art display-lol!

This one is my favorite of the pieces going up.

It was such a perfect shot. Koodles to the owner who caught a great shot!