Norwegian Elkound Pet Portraits in Pencil / Taisho
Portrait Drawings in Graphite Pencil by Katja
Pet Portrait Commission Info
This is a pencil drawing I created of a dog named Taisho in year 2009. The portrait drawing is in size A4 which used to be a standard size of mine.
Taisho is a Norwegian elkhound (Jämthund), the client decided to commission this pencil portrait as a surprise gift for his wife. This drawing took ca. 60 hours to complete, thouse hours were very intense.
Hi Katja!
My apologies for taking so long to get back to you. As I mentioned, we decided to move recently and so my life has been upside down for a couple of months as we are nearly finished selling our house and moved into a rental home. We're now about 20 minutes south of San Francisco instead of right in the city.
While this was going on I finally got the portrait of Taisho back from the framers' and it looks great! I put it on a wall in our master bedroom and had my wife close her eyes while I stood her right in front of it. I told her this was her belated and now long-awaited birthday gift that she was surely going to love -- and so of course she couldn't imagine what it was -- and she was brought to tears. It's such a lovely portrait. You really captured his character and this is a piece of art we'll cherish the rest of our lives.
I'm really happy with how it turned out and feel so lucky to have kept digging on the Internet until I found you -- all the way in Sweden. The framers, who have seen it all, were really impressed with your work too. The eyes, the depth to the work -- they were pretty astonished. Attached is a photo of the framed piece. Getting a picture of Taisho is hard as he doesn't like to have cameras pointed at him. It took me a long time to get you a good photo to work with. And then having the framed drawing next to him adds to the complication, but I will try to get one of him and the drawing and send it along. I thought you might want to see the framing for now.
Best regards,
Gary Rainville
