Win a "Personalized Pet Portrait Print"!

Win one of my new 'Personalized Pet Portrait Prints'! Visit http://anneleuck.com/AnnesPetPortraits.html

Choose a Dog or Cat from the recent portrait Gallery - Face Portraits or Narrative ones - that looks like

your Pet or one you would like to give as a Gift. (You may also choose from any other dog on my website). Comment on the Post on theAnne Leuck Feldhaus Studio Facebook Fan Page with the

Pet's name and your Pet's name. A Random Winner will be chosen on Friday

at 5pm! An added bonus = you get to pick your own border color and background

pattern! I will also make any reasonable edits to the color of the animal to match yours. Go check them out!

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Here's a little cheat sheet:

Now you can wear Anne's Art around your neck!

via www.etsy.com

I'm excited to share my new necklaces with you, they were a real hit at the One of a Kind Show last week! Now you can order them on Etsy. $25 each or 2 for $40 + free shipping!

You get to pick from over 50 designs! These mini prints are mounted on Scrabble Tiles..another reason to love Scrabble. I'm a big fan! Each pendant is printed
on Glossy High Quality paper. The pendant is sealed with a protective
glossy resin and comes with an 18" Alumimum Ball Chain.

Hooray, a Sale! Save 20% on Holiday Pet Portrait Orders!

This was such a hit last year, I'm doing it again...this way you can give a Custom Portrait and I have some wiggle room for Final Delivery of the Finished Piece!

HOLIDAY PRE-ORDER SALE!
Enjoy *20% Savings on Custom Pet Portrait Orders Received by December 12th
Face Portraits = $50 Savings and Up & Narrative Portraits = $100 Savings and Up

 *In exchange for the 20% Discount, I guarantee deliveryof a Glossy Color Sketch/Illustration for you to presentto your loved one by December 22nd, and you agree to final completion ordelivery of the actual Ready to Hang Laminated Print or Acrylic Painting AFTER the Holidays.

*** Orders Received by November 30th *** are Guaranteed Holiday Delivery!

Questions, want more details? CLICK!

Bad Ass Art...

It was great fun to create this composition encompassing all the lovely animals at the "Bad Ass Sheep Farm". I had the pleasure of visiting the Hendricks Farm over the Holidays when I was visiting family and friends in Wisconsin and meeting all these adorable creatures. Very helpful to capture the spirit of this commission. In the painting: their chickens...(sorry I don't have names) Dogs: Joy and Bo, Jack (Sparro) the  kitty cat, Jacob Sheep Ewes: Rachel and Rebecca, Romney Sheep: 769 & Pitchfork and last, but not least, Penny..the (not so) bad ass! Oh...and the bees, they even make their own fabulous honey...from the Division of Angry Bees! Such lovely people and an idealic little farm, thanks Beth Ann & John!

Penny!

Jacob Sheep Ewes, Rachel and Rebecca...love their markings!

Raw Honey, brought to you by the Division of Angry Bees!

Joy...

Beth Ann getting ready to serve up a bad ass lunch!

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New...Double Pet Portrait Composition!

It's time to order your Holiday Pet Portrait! And just in time...you've been asking for it, and now I have it, the Double Pet Portrait Composition....A 12"x16"x1.5" deep Ready To Hang Custom Laminated Pet Portrait Print. Price = $400. Order by November 24th to ensure Holiday Delivery! Click here for pricing for Single Pet Face Portraits and Narrative Portraits.

The last week in pictures...

I purchase these beautiful tulips earlier in the week, yesterday they were in perfect full bloom and I captured this shot in the morning sun...

Meet Jason Loper...new House Tours Contributing Editor for the Apartment Therapy Blog, my home will be his first official House Tour feature on Monday, March 8th! Jason is also the fabulous designer behind Zola Jones Designs.

Izzy in the suns spot...
A fun card for Eva May and new ACEO's in the works: And artist Vivian Visser who came in to paint with me last Saturday...we made these stuffed pets last year at a "Make Day" party at the Bouzide's. Her finished cat: ...and my unfinished dog:
Hope you have an amazing weekend! Rich and I are off to Starved Rock State Park on Saturday for some hiking and maybe even some tandem biking on the I & M Canal Trail on Sunday.

Pet Portrait Reveal #4...Sam the Cat

Sam the Cat...who is deeply missed. This portrait was a memory gift from my client to his wife for the holidays. Sam loved olives.

Chicagoland Tails Feature...

I was interviewed by Agnes Jasinski of Chicagoland Tails last fall and am honored to be featured in an article she wrote that appears in the December/January Issue of the Magazine titled: "Pet Artist Uses Work To Promote Adoption and Rescue Groups", I have included it below. Our (tentative) first adoption event at the studio for 2010 will be on February 13th with Chicago Canine Rescue ...stay tuned. If you know of a group that would be interested in having an event here, please send them my way!

Pet artist uses work to promote adoption and rescue groups
By Agnes Jasinski

AnneLeuck Feldhaus was still working a corporate job when she adopted Izzy,the beloved canine who sparked her creative spirit and got her to leaveher job and pursue art full-time. Around the time Izzy came into herlife, she began doing dog images, paintings, and promotional art forshows put on by rescue groups. Her images were “very funny bright,colorful dog paintings,” she says, that started out as a hobby butbecame a calling and a way for her to promote pet adoption.
“The first dogimages came from her, along with the whole awareness of how serious theproblem was,” Feldhaus says about her passion for adoption and Izzy’sinfluence. “I went to a lot of different places to meet dogs and tofind the right one, and had two cats at the time from Anti-Cruelty. …That process really opened my eyes.”
Feldhaus has now been donating art for fundraisers to rescue groupslike the Treehouse Animal Foundation and Young at Heart Pet Rescue forthe last 14 years. Her work with the rescues has been pro bono, but shealso does paintings of people’s pets. Her artwork has been hung up inlobbies, sold to raise money for local rescues, and used on T-shirtsand posters to promote shelter events.
Earlier this spring, Feldhaus also opened a storefront studio in RoscoeVillage at 2040 W. Roscoe, where she hopes to not only have a presencein the neighborhood as an artist, but to also invite local rescuegroups to hold adoption events there. The first event was held Aug. 8with Chicago Canine Rescue. A portion of any sales at any of theadoption events will go toward the rescue that day. The next event willbe held Dec. 12, with pets brought in from Young at Heart Pet Rescue.
“My goal and mission are to give back to our dogs and cats all theunconditional love and devotion they provide us by spreading the wordabout animal adoption through my art and designs,” Feldhaus says. “AlsoI truly believe that our pets make us better human beings.”

For more information, visit AnnesArt.com.