Sooo….. let me tell you a story.
Once upon a time, Tree House had a fundraiser at a place in Chicago where you can paint and drink wine. Many months ago, the FODs bought tickets to said fundraiser, where they could work with an artist to paint kitties. I mean, not on their fur, but paint a kitty on a canvas, art-like, if you know what I mean. Some arguing ensued when the FODs couldn’t agree upon who was going to paint yours truly. Well, DadFOD won. MomFOD let him paint me, and she decided to paint a portrait of Mrs. Peabody based on a photograph she’d taken that she thought would make a lovely painting. Also, their friend Sara painted Pete, who you may recognized from his role as “Bob” in CHATastrophe.
Let’s take a look at the results, shall we?
Here’s what Sara did:
Let’s critique this. We have an excellent use of color. The multiple layers of orange are pleasing to the eye against the contrasting blue. Overall, it’s quite a lovely stylized portrait of Bob.
Next, we have MomFOD’s painting of Mrs. Peabody.
Keeping in mind that they had only one hour to complete these paintings, I’d say Mrs. Peabody has been fairly rendered. Also, she glows like Leroy from The Last Dragon, which is pretty epic in and of itself.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, may I present DadFOD’s painting of me:
To which I reply:
Not only has he gone ahead and removed my front leg, but I seem to be hemorrhaging from the jugular and he’s given me a man’s mustache. Oh, and there’s a space ship. Also, he made me a grey tabby. I’m not grey, although after seeing this painting, I feel pretty blue. A for effort, DadFOD. A for effort.
Does anyone have any art they’d like to share? I’m happy to give you my critique.
Love,
Crepes.
Hey Crepes! When you get a mo, please stop on by my blog. There’s a special little somethin’ waitin’ for you there.
Purrs,
Nissy
They are making space for it in the Louvre right this minute!
Noodle
Crepes, you made our night with your critique, that was the fun we needed! (uh, not to insult DadFOD or anything). Bravo to MomFOD and Sara! Actually you all did great paintings in one hour!
They are all unique and I applaud you all! As a pet portrait artist, I could never go to one of these events. I toss many paintings I start and start all over again. An hour? I supposed I could run out of canvas in an hour. On another note: How was the wine?
We forgot the wine!!!!
Maybe DadFOD can get some art lessons and try again. It’s still better than the stick figure that we would get if the head peep tried to make freehand art of one of us.
The first two paintings are good. I think your dad used artistic licence to create his unique painting of you.
There are no words, Crepes…other than your DadFOD needs to take some more lessons. 😀
we bee late in gettin heer two day N we guess de good Lord had a purpose in that….
bob…ya look awesum in yur painting frank lee… tho what happened ta yur tie….
mrs P…..ewe glow with yur inner lite that shines upon de houzhold, makin it a far far better place than it wuz 20 yeerz ago…
crepes…haz we ever said just HOW good oh a director yur dad reeeely iz 🙂 !!!!!!
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MOLMOL! We love the critique you did of DadFOD’s painting of you. Too funny. All of those paintings look great, though! We are impressed. There is no art of us done by our pawrents because they have no artistic capabilities!
Oh, Crepes, I hope that painting doesn’t haunt you in your dreams. Nice of you to recognize his effort. It is kind of cute in a psychotic way. Feel honored that he wanted to paint your portrait. ~Rascal and Rocco
LOL Glow from Leroy in The Last Dragon, that was great! And I think your portrait is fine Crepes… it… it has just been stylized! They are all great paintings! I bet your critique doesn’t stop anyone from actually hanging those paintings. (It wouldn’t stop me!)
I love them! 🙂
Wow they did pretty good for only an hour. Mine sure would not look like those. Have a great weekend.
Sue B
That is hysterical. The first two are really good and the third one is so funny especially with Crepes critique. We also know our Mom couldn’t do any where near as well.Great pictures. Take care.
ummm….wow…. (though we can honestly say we don’t think our mom would do any better)
Well, let’s be clear here. We’re not picking on MomFOD – just DadFOD. 😉
Oh my Crepes, you are a lot nicer with your reaction to DadFOD than my mancat would be with me! As Sparkle so perfectly put it, his portrait of you is interesting…
Everyone did do a good job for not being artists and having only an hour to complete a portrait of the complex subject that is feline. I could never paint my fur kids an have them be recognizable as themselves, let alone their species! Ms. Phoebe would have been insulted had I even attempted to capture her royal image, and Kaspars would not hesitate to give me the evil eye, a fat tail, and growl fueled critique all-at-once.
You would make a lovely model for an artist to capture in portrait with your coloring and expressive face. I’m sure someday the FODs will have someone commission a truly deserving portrait of your fabulous self- I know I am one fan who would love one to hang on the wall.
Oh…. blush….. Maybe I’d best get MomFOD on doing that portrait! Paint isn’t really her forte, but she’s decent with some charcoal…-Crepes.
I actually don’t think they’re bad for only having an hour to do them! But um, yeah, that painting of you, Crepes, is, well, interesting.
You’ll know why I love this post after you see the art today at my blog. Cats are really hard to draw and I admire those who can.
Well, they’re braver than I am…I wouldn’t dare to paint my kitties. Their criticism would probably kill me 🙂