Pet Portraits Make Perfect Birthday Gifts

Birthday gifts should be significant
We all enjoy receiving birthday gifts that show that the giver has given special thought to making the gift personal and special as well as appropriate. Giving a school shirt to a young child is almost as bad as giving a tie to someone who already has 20 ties in his closet.

Birthdays gifts that are practical, useful, or necessary items should be given for school graduation, retirement parties, Christmas or other holiday celebrations, but birthdays should be seen as opportunities to give something unique and meaningful.

Pet owners are the easiest to buy birthday gifts for
Did you ever see a dog laugh? Or catch a cat smiling over its shoulder? Almost everyone who has ever loved a pet can’t help but believe that they have witnessed at one time or another every kind of human emotion expressed by their own pets.

Pets stimulate natural positive human emotions of caring and nurturing and serve important functions in the lives of their owners. Young children form very close emotional bonds with their pets and older children learn about caring for their pets and the responsibilities of having an animal companion. Older people depend on their pets for companionship and comfort, and people with serious illnesses have even shown marked improvement in their health when they enjoy the company of an animal.

From the beginning of Man’s domestication of animals, cats and dogs, fish and birds, and other small animals have shared living space with their human owner. Pet animals have adapted to humans and humans have responded with care and affection, even to the point of considering them ‘family’.

This close attachment is the reason why giving people birthday gifts that include their pets can be just as successful as giving gifts that relate to their children or spouses.

The hard way to make pet portraits for birthday gifts
If you are planning to give a portrait of pet as a birthday gift you could tell the pet owner in advance what you want to do, and schedule a photo session to take digital photographs of the pet. Then, you could order an enlargement to be printed of the best shot, and after you receive the print you could take it to a frame shop to have the printed portrait mounted under glass in a frame. This method is time consuming and could become rather expensive.

The easy way to make pet portraits for birthday gifts
A much easier and more thoughtful way - especially if you like to give surprise birthday gifts - is to take digital photographs of the pet when the pet’s owner is not around. You may have to enlist the help of a relative or friend to accomplish this.

Once you have a great photo, upload the digital image to an online art gallery that offers full services for printing on canvas. In one sitting, you can choose the enlargement size you want and have it printed on canvas using the giclée printing technique. At the same time, you can choose a frame. The gallery should give you final approval of the image before they print it and ship it to you. You will be very pleasantly surprised how inexpensive the portrait will be and at how quickly it will be processed and shipped.

Birthday gifts that outdo all expectations
There is no substitute for the surprise and pleasure that receiving a pet portrait will create. As birthday gifts, print on canvas pet portraits are personal, heartwarming, appropriate, and will last a lifetime. The receiver will probably tell you it’s one of the best birthday gifts he or she ever received.via

Photo to Pop Art Love Story

James was in the middle of the darkness, grasping for some light to continue his way. He was a camper, unluckily lost in the jungle. Because of being self-righteous, he went to another way with a confidence that he would still find the track. Unluckily, he had a way opposite to the safer and right location of the track. He was shivering out of cold and fear. He missed his family and at the same time his photo to pop art paintings. He is an artist in nature and he used to paint many of his photo to pop art. He also painted some of his friends' photo to pop art that made them to giggle and laugh at the canvas.

But at that time, he was alone. No friends, family and photo to pop art painting. How sad. He was still thinking that they are searching for him. But how long he would wait? He couldn't able to spend even another hour in that dark rain forest, how much more for an entire day.

He was alarmed when he heard a girl's sob. Goosebumps filled his body thinking that he would experience the paranormal occurrence. He remembered that he printed his late friend's photo to pop art painting. Man, he was really frightened that time. He was thinking that maybe his friend was mad at him because he made her picture a laughing stuff. But in the other side of his mind spoke that he just did it to mend the broken feelings of the group for the lost of its member. Because of that, he took courage to search for the owner of the sobs . There, he found someone, a lady with a long-blond hair crying with her backpack. He realized that like him, she also lost her way. James couldn't deny that he found the lady attractive behind her angelic face and fearful eyes. A photo to pop art painting was flashed inside his mind. For him, it was the best masterpiece he could paint. Actually, to keep her calm, he took some pictures of them as they were looking for their companions. They were together for three hours before their friends found them and they bade goodbye to one another before heading on different ways. It's a great lost for James to separate with her because he didn't able to get even her address and number.

If you think that this photo to pop art love story will end here, well, it's a big mistake. After four years of hard work, James had able to start a pop art business. He specialized in turning the photo to pop art painting and even printing it to a canvas. His inspiration of his successful photo to pop art career was the lovely lady he met in the jungle. In fact, he painted her photo to pop art that serves as the major model of his shop. He promised to himself that if ever he would meet her again, he would make an initiative and action for her to stay. He would never lost her again.

A client's call was received at the dawn. James dressed in his formal outfit to meet this client. As he was approaching the table, he realized that his new client was no other than the lady in the jungle who also took an initiative to meet him and continue their love story.

The latest masterpiece of James is the pop art canvas of their wedding.via