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Article: LOCAL ARTIST FINDS AN UNUSUAL SPECIALTY IN PET PORTRAITS
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- Sun Publications (IL)
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- July 15, 1998
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Virginia Reda is an artist with an unusual specialty: pet portraiture. Although she also paints traditional landscapes, the pet portraits of cats, birds, rabbits, dogs, and horses have become what you might call her pet project -- keeping her the busiest year-round.
"I work from photographs the family has taken of their pet," said Reda.
"I like to have at least five photographs to work from.
Then the owner and I discuss the color of the pet's coat or other distinctive markings.
I keep the backgrounds plain unless the pet I'm painting is a working or hunting animal, in which case I'd include an outdoor scene."
Reda, who has painted professionally for the past 14 years, paints the pets in ...