Glenn Cernosek Pet Portrait Fine Art - Pet Portrait Artist - Austin, TX

My pet and animal portraits are hyper realistic. I work from photographs, so the sharper the image of the photograph, the more realistic the finished painting will be. For an additional fee I am available to do the photography if needed.

The painting can be framed in two ways. (1) A traditional framing with mats and glass or plexiglass. (2) Another way to frame it is to have me coat the finished painting with multiple layers of a UV acrylic varnish protective coating. The painting can then be framed just as if it was an oil or acrylic painting, without a mat or glass. Varnishing cost an additional $29 for the 9" x 12", $33 for 11" x 14" and $39 for 12" x 16".

I choose to paint pets, animals and complicated subjects with bold colors and dramatic lighting because the reflected light enhances the colors of my subjects. 

I choose to paint in watercolor because of the challenge of painting with the most difficult medium to master.

Because I paint with the highest quality paints and paper, I know my paintings will last for hundreds of years,

I start my paintings by doing several 3” x 5” pencil studies to determine which composition and how much of the photo to use.  I paint in layers, called glazes.  As the light passes through the layers and bounce back into the viewers eyes, the color you see is more interesting than if I had just mixed those colors together on my palette and then painted that mixed color on the paper.

I choose to paint in a realistic style because I enjoy painting detail, often it can put me in a meditative state as I am painting.  Hours can pass by quickly.  All the detail gives the viewer more to look at.  The longer you look at my paintings, the more you will discover."

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Five of Glenn's tropical watercolor paintings are currently featured on sets of the TV shows: Hawaii Five-O and Magnum PI.

The oil painting, "1851 Colt Navy Revolver" is featured in an exhibit at the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.

Glenn has exhibited his paintings in many art competitions, including:

2021 Dolores Price Award - 51st Annual Watercolor Society of South Texas Exhibition
2018 Merit Award - 40th Annual Waterloo Watercolor Group Exhibit
2017 12th Juried International Guild of Realism for an oil painting
2016, 1992 & 1988 International Exhibition - Watercolor Art Society - Houston

 Other previous exhibitions:

- Waterloo Watercolor Group 32nd Annual Members' Juried Show
- American Watercolor Society, New York
- Watercolor Art Society – Houston
- Western Federation of Watercolor Societies
- Art For The Parks, Jackson, Wyoming

Please contact me through Petworks. Have a great day!