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A New Giclee and Daily Painters News


"Lazing Around," 8" x 10", acrylic on Ampersand Gessobord commissioned pet portrait of two rescued puppy mill Cairn Terrier veterans. The origianl painting is in a private collection (THANK YOU!), but today I am pleased to offer a limited edition series of giclees.

A giclee is a computer generated archival print, in this case carefully created so as to match the original as closely as possible. I will be printing only 25 of these, and once they are gone, they are gone.

The giclees are done on a beautiful matte artists paper, with an image size of approximately 8" x 10". I will sign each one. The cost per is $49 plus another $15 for shipping and handling within the US. I'll be happy to quote shipping costs for anywhere else.

ALSO, another announcement - thanks to your overwhelming support, Painting a Dog a Day has made it to Round Two of the Daily Painters contest!! WAHOO!!

This means that the voting starts all over again - there are 10 artists remaining to cast votes for. All of which can be done here. From each of the computers you own/work at. And from your friends' and family members' machines as well .

Oh yeah - and THANK YOU!!

Inquiries (including booking your own pet portrait, from miniature size [4" x 4"] to larger than life) may always come to me.

Thanks, as always, for looking at - and sharing - my artwork and musings with your friends and family.
Kim

TWITTER: ksantini
SHOP ORIGINALS & LIMITED EDITION GICLEES: at my Etsy shop
ORDER CUSTOMIZED NOTECARDS & REPRODUCTIONS: at Imagekind
COMMISSION A PET PORTRAIT: contact me
GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE: contact me
READING MATERIAL: Preview and order each of the Dog a Day books at the publisher's website: The First Year (2006-2007) and That's 14 in Dog Years (2008). If you would like your copy personalized, order them through me.

Comments

  1. RH Carpenter2:04 PM

    Good luck on the Painting a Day competition - so far, so good, and you've had my votes since I saw your work at Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson's blog when she featured your dog there :)

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  2. Kimberly Kelly Santini2:31 PM

    RHCarpenter - THANK YOU! It was a huge treat getting featured on one of my artist mentor's websites... :)

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