Welcome to my art gallery!
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, VA, I first made my way to Los Angeles to work in Advertising. After many successful years there, I completely switched gears and became a Private Flight Attendant and got to see and experience the world. My husband and I lived for several years on the lush island of Grenada where I taught art at the Grenada Montessori School, and discovered my love for teaching! We have just recently settled outside the vibrant city of Greenville, South Carolina and I feel I have now gone full circle and am fully embracing my creativity.
These striking pet portrait pillows are a hand-painted likeness of your pet and personalized with your pet’s name! I work from photos you email me. They are painted on canvas fabric, using black fabric paint, which does not smudge and can be hand-washed. They are then sewn into a slipcover. I can do a single pet, two pets or 3!! The size of the pillow will vary according to how many pets. I can paint ANY kind of pet!!! 60% of the pet portrait pillows I do are what I call 'Memory Pillows'. A sweet tribute to a pet that has passed.
Our pets are very personable and quite special to us. Have your pet painted as a famous custom pet portrait. I work from emailed photos of your pet. You can select a favorite artist for me to work from, or I will help you find the perfect one for your pet. My challenge is to paint your pet in this new setting, matching color and brushstrokes until I have your pet captured! You can also have your pet painted the traditional way! I can taylor to any special needs you may have.
This is an example of a commissioned painting for my client, Patricia, of her granddaughter's pup, Luna, who needed a strong colorful painting, and 'Frida Kahlo With Exotic Birds' was the perfect famous portrait to work from!
Near the end of the never-ending 'Shut-In' days of Covid, neighbors and friends reached out to me to see if I could come up with some fun painting classes to ease their boredom.... thus my next creative outlet was born! Since then, I have brought paint parties to numerous private homes, community pavilons, apartment social areas, and retirement homes.
122 Winding Rock Road, Simpsonville, SC 29680, United States
(703) 303-0355 Lmalchow@icloud.com www.lisamalchowstudios.com