In case you missed it, here is the fabulous Dara Foster from PupStyle on the Today Show with more gift ideas for dogs and dog lovers this holiday season…
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Show your support for the Democratic candidate for Congress's sixth district of Minnesota with this Property of El Tinklenberg t-shirt.
If you have not been following this story, Elwyn Tinklenberg is the man running against Michele Bachmann (R) the woman who channeled Joe McCarthy on Hardball last week when she called Barack and Michelle Obama anti-American and said:
"I think the news media should do a penetrating expose on the views of the people in Congress and see if they are pro-America or Anti-Amrica."
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Click here to see the t-shirts in women's, plus, kids, and infant sizes. Baby bibs and baseball caps too. Donate to El Tinklenberg's campaign here. Go El!
The Four Seasons Lab and Boxer Print.
Today, the ASPCA asks all animal lovers to wear orange to celebrate the organization’s victories on behalf of animals and the joy they bring to pet parents everywhere. It’s also the 141st anniversary of its founding.
Some cities are marking the day with special events. If you’re in New York, dress you and your dog in orange and head to Union Square where a new doggie drinking fountain will be unveiled at 3:45. The gathering, which runs until 8:00, will also include adoptable pets, live music, snacks, the cops from Animal Planet’s Animal Precinct, photographers, dog artists, and pet-personalized merchandise. It sounds awesome! If anyone goes, I’d love a report. Click here for more information. And here to find out about events in your city.
Dogs Do Come True Mug
I’m featuring my own orange merchandise here today and will donate 50% of all sales to the ASPCA.
Groovy Font Doxie T-shirt
Over on Etsy, the Dog Mafia (a group of dog art sellers), has also rounded up their orange merchandise to raise money for the cause.
Thank you ASPCA for so many years of devotion animals. Happy to give back!
I created this t-shirt in honor of Uno the champion Beagle at the 2008 Westminster Dog Show and the most talked about movie of the year, There Will Be Blood. Celebrate your own Beagle star with this design from DreamDogsArt in men’s, women’s, plus, maternity, and children’s sizes.
Click here to see more Uno Beagle T-shirts from other designers.
The fabulous jewelry designer and blogger comedienne, Wendy Brandes, gave me this idea for a dog t-shirt There Will Be Blood Parody. Genius!
Order one for your maniacal pup today.
Starting out my top 10 dog breed countdown is the Miniature Schnauzer. Here are some great holiday gift ideas for the Miniature Schnauzer lover in your life.
Rebecca Collins’s gorgeously saturated canvas print of Cecil, the Miniature Schnauzer. Available on her Etsy shop. Rebecca is one of the most popular dog artists in the country and a Dog Art Today favorite. You can also order a custom digital painting of your pet from her ArtPaw website where gift certificates would make a wonderful gift too.
Hand pierced sterling silver Schnauzer pin from Bone of Art where over 70 other dog breed pins are available now.
Groovy Miniature Schnauzer t-shirt from Gifts of Love who have dozens of other dog breeds with this design.
Say “Merry Christmas” with this lovely Miniature Schnauzer ornament from graphic artist Karen Hocker. It comes with a red ribbon for tree hanging.
Look closely at this limited edition lithograph. The Miniature Schnauzer is drawn entirely from the words Miniature Schnauzer! This is an Ebay auction item that will expire on November 21 at 12:22 PST. You can see more of the artist Kline’s work at his gallelryNow online store.
Evolution of the Schnauzer long sleeve T-shirt from Obey the Purebreed. Love it!
Although I don’t have any Miniature Schnauzer art in my DreamDogsArt store, I do have this Schnauzer mix collage (seen here on a coaster). It’s based on my sister Regan’s dog named Logan, who is one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever known. He’s a big hit with Schnauzer lovers too.
Colin Gleadell of London’s Telegraph reports that the debut of ShContemporary, Shanghai’s first art fair, surpassed all expectations. He also notes that a Lucian Freud naked portrait of a man with a dog was priced at $16 million. This sent me on a quest to find the painting. Alas, I was unsuccessful. But I had an excellent time discovering Freud, a painter I have always loved, as a dog artist.
Pluto and Eli were Freud’s beloved Whippets.
I love these dogs for the same reason I love Freud’s nudes. Not for their realism (it’s not what he does) but, to borrow from Stephen Colbert, for their “truthiness.” You can almost smell the dogs, feel their weight and the heat of their breath. I’ve seen many picture-perfect dog paintings, but that’s what they are, pictures of dogs. These are dogs with their aches, and their age, and their unique doggy odor. And I think they’re spectacular.
Bella, Freud’s daughter, works her dog love into her fashion line, featuring Pluto t-shirts designed from one of her father’s sketches. Order yours on her very dog-centric website.
Interestingly, Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud’s grandfather, was not only a dog lover but was also known to include his dog as an assistant in his psychoanalysis.
“Freud felt that dogs had a special sense that allows them to judge a person’s character accurately. For this reason his favorite Chow-Chow, Jo-Fi, attended all of his therapy sessions; Freud admitted that he often depended upon Jo-Fi for an assessment of the patient’s mental state… [The dog] would alert him to any stress or tension in a patient…He lay relatively close to calm patients, but would stay across the room if the patient was tense. Jo-Fi also helped the great psychoanalyst determine when a therapy session was finished by unfailingly getting up and moving toward the office door when the hour was up.” (source: What Do Dogs Know?
Limited edition photo of Sigmund Freud on a balcony with his two dogs is available from LMT Gallery on ebay. Starting bid is $7.50.
It turns out two of my simplest t-shirt designs have been the most popular this summer. My friend Meredith had her darling baby boy Harry model the Striped Dachshund and the Paisley Scottie dog t-shirts in the onesie style.
Harry and my parent’s dog Minnie really hit it off…
See more Moira McLaughin original dog t-shirts at my DreamDogsArt Store.
