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Leopard Rug and Art Sale!

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Here’s my latest big rug design: A leopard! I had so much fun with my tiger design last year that I wanted to do another big cat. Leopards are so gorgeous and elegant! Definitely one of my top favourite wild cats.
I went with a lighter green-blue-purple gradient for the stripes to really emphasise the colours. I find going too dark with the pattern tends to wash out the overall colours of the rug.


This rug will be available at the Capital Art Sale at 1150 Prospect St starting Wednesday, November 29th! Please feel free to swing by and see it in person, and check out all the other amazing art by local artists while you’re there!

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Bearded Seal Sticker Design

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Finally, another sticker design for this month’s sticker pack: A bearded seal!

Bearded seals are kind of plain looking; brown or grey evenly all over. Except they have the most amazing whiskers! They may be my favourite species of Canadian seal just because their whiskers are so dramatic and fun. The pups are also pretty funny looking; they remind me of old dogs with those dramatic grey eyebrows and muzzles. I’d love to paint one of those little guys some day.

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Gay Seal of Approval Sticker

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A fresh take on the seal of approval pun so popular among seal merch makers: The gay seal of approval! Or the seal of gay approval. OR the seal of gay AND approval. Either way, you can’t lose!

My scanner destroyed the oranges and yellows on this, as usual, so I touched them up digitally. The sticker actually looks closer to the original than the scan.

I’m also sending out a special holofoil version of this guy in addition to the monthly stickers over on Ko-fi. Be sure to sign up for the sticker tier any time this month if you want this bonus sticker!

Or you can grab the regular vinyl sticker on Etsy: https://squidtartsart.etsy.com/ca/listing/1590687108/gay-seal-of-approval-vinyl-sticker

Or right here on this website: https://rainbowpetportraits.ca/product/gay-seal-of-approval-vinyl-sticker/

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New Medium Sized Rugs! Foxes!

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Here’s a new smaller fox rug design! I’ve used this design for a pair of larger rugs, but this is their premier as medium rugs. The little tongues and noses were a bit of a challenge at this size, but I think they turned out pretty well!
Do you prefer the classic orange fox or the more flamboyant silver fox design?

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New Sticker! Ringed Seal Sticker Design

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The next design for our seal sticker pack is the Ringed Seal!
Ringed seals have such beautiful patterns. It’s hard to pick out a “cutest” when it comes to seals, but ring seals might be it for me. They’re also the smallest true seal, which definitely ups the cute factor.

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New Design! Medium Rainbow Seal Rugs

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Here’s a new design I’m premiering this year: Seals! You miiiight have noticed that I’ve been on a real seal kick. I couldn’t not make a seal rug design! These little guys are based loosely off a harbour seal. I’d love to do a larger, more realistic take on these little guys some day.
Do you prefer the grey/blue or brown/orange variation? They both look so cheerful and friendly, I can’t decide!

Watch me design and create these rugs in my latest Skillshare class:
https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Stylizing-Subjects-for-Rug-Tufting/124191550

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Retiring Pattern! Tree Frog Mini Rugs

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Some lil tree frogs!
I’m retiring this frog design from my medium rugs, but I thought it would make a cute mini rug! I decided to keep with block colours instead of rainbow for these little guys. Their tiny size and relatively complex shape would make rainbow versions a little too busy imo. After I finished these, I was kicking myself for not making an aqua version to look like a White’s tree frog. Maybe next time…
Do you have a preference between the light and darker greens? Do you think a rainbow design would work for these little guys?

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October Exclusive Sticker – Harp Seal

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My sticker pack for October/November is the spookiest animals of all: Seals! Um, yup, that’s definitely right. Spooky. 😛 

This cutie is a harp seal. They’re probably the most iconic seal species in Canada, but they’re often shown as white, fluffy babies. (SO CUTE!) I love the adults’ dramatic patterning, and really wanted to showcase it with this design.

This adorable harp seal is our Ko-fi exclusive holofoil, jumbo vinyl sticker for this month! You can either subscribe to the sticker tier or buy the sticker directly here: https://ko-fi.com/s/1ef3854d26

Once these jumbo cuties sell out, just the regular 2.5” seals will be available, so be sure to grab one if you want one!

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Mini Fox Rugs

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New to the mini rug family, here are some foxes! I based this design on my 2021 large fox rugs (the 2022 has more detail and I didn’t think it’d scale down as well), and I’m pretty happy with them! I really love representing both red and silver foxes. I should do a cross fox some time if I remember haha!
I went with green eyes for these guys again. I think they work really well for the orange foxes and feel more natural than blue, but I kinda wish I’d gone with orange eyes on the blue foxes to maximise their foxiness.

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Rainbow Squids Sticker Pack

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Finally, here’s the full rainbow squids sticker pack! It’s so satisfying seeing them all together. I tried to keep a good spread of colours across all the designs so they’d be maximally rainbow as a set. I had a ton of fun designing all these squishy little squid bodies, and I hope that comes across in the finished sticker pack.

These guys are now available here on Etsy and my website.

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