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The Bonnie Hunt Show's pet portrait winner!
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Animals & Art
Surrounded by animals all her life, Aimée's earliest drawings were of horses, dogs, cats and bears.
If it had four legs and furry ears, it was in her sketch book. But it wasn't years later after college
that she painted her very first custom pet portrait...
After graduating with an art degree in 1992 from Cal State Long Beach, Aimée was introduced by a friend to a gentleman named George.
She quickly learned that he was a fellow animal lover. In fact, he was such an amimal lover that at the age of 65,
he did a little pet sitting for friends and family.
When George learned that Aimée was an artist, he asked if she had ever painted dogs (having his own pooches in mind as subjects).
Although she hadn't so much as scribbled a stick-dog in the last 15 years, she said she could give it a shot.
That same week, George produced a photo of his cockapoos, Honey and Sonny, and Aimée went to work.
When she presented the finished portrait a month later, it was--to her surprise--received with hugs and tears. No one had ever reacted
like that to her work before. But then she realized she had never painted "a subject" so beloved as the family pet. And the idea clicked.
A decade later, Aimée's custom pet portraits hang in the homes of animal lovers across
the country. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including
Bark Magazine, Modern Dog, and Australia's Urban Animal, in which she was recognized internationally as one of
ten pet portrait artists from around the world.
She looks forward to meeting and painting more beloved dogs and cats in 2009.
(Curious to see the very first portrait ever painted? Click here.)
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