recent projects: family/pet portrait

A new client recently approached me with an unusual but highly timely request: one of their beloved family dogs had recently passed, and she wanted to give her husband a remembrance as a birthday present. She provided me with a really sweet photograph of her husband and their dog for me to work with, and then I was able to make this family portrait for them:

It was a little heart-breaking making this portrait, but also really comforting, getting to create a picture that had so much love in it. It was clear from all of the reference images that my client provided that their dog was dearly loved and missed, and I feel grateful to have been able to make a tender image for them.