Hi Happy Campers! "Willow" is an adorable labradoodle that I had the privilege of painting for a Christmas present! My client sent a photo to work from that you see at the end of this 3 minute time lapse video and they picked the background color :-D I show you a look at how the 1.5" deep gallery wrapped canvases look on the back. ALSO, that I write the word 'love' on the canvas before I start my paintings. I use heavy body professional acrylic paints. Once the painting has d

Hey Happy Campers! This just makes me LAUGH! One of these days I will remember to film holding the camera horizontal. LOVE! LOVE! This new fabric line of mine and Blank Quilting Corp's! https://www.blankquilting.net/dog-gone-fun/ BIG thanks to them for such amazing quality cotton fabric! Honored to team up with them. IF YOU SEE this fabric in stores, take a picture and send it to me - Thanks! It ships in July sometime, so don't go looking just yet :-D anntroe2@gmail.com Be s

Hey Happy Campers! Doing a panting demo! Giving away this Angle Hearted orig painting below! FREE bumble bee coasters while supplies last at The Grove Gallery in downtown historic Nebraska City where I have original art for sale! NEW art available too. I will be there Saturday, June 8th from Noon to 4 pm. Be sure to follow my Facebook Fan page, I will announce each month's painting demos as events. @AnnieTroe GIVING AWAY this 6"x8" original Angel Hearted painting with wire ha

Hey Happy Campers! I am THRILLED and honored to be included in Artists Networks' (North Light Books) coffee table book on the year's best acrylic artists! It is on sale NOW and ships this Tues. May 14th. COOL BEANS! As I write this, it is selling for $28.46, pre-order price. As you may have guessed, I am featured in the animal section 😻. I will have a copy of "AcrylicWorks 6" at my next painting demo at The Grove Gallery, Saturday May 25th, 2019, noon - 4:00 pm. I will bring

Hey Happy Campers! EXCITED to announce that I will be doing monthly painting demos at The Grove Gallery in downtown historic Nebraska City where I have original art for sale! I will be there THIS Saturday, April 20th from noon to 4 pm. Be sure to follow my Facebook Fan page, I will announce each month's painting demos as events. @AnnieTroe GIVING AWAY this 4"x4" (1.5" deep) original Bumble Bee painting with gold metallic sides. Stop by to enter. FREE set of 4 pulp board coast

Hey Happy Campers! Meet "Fanny Feathers" robin painted on a 5x7" canvas panel. I will be adding a wire and couple of beads for it to hang from. You may notice the little holes I drilled at the top of the panel. MATERIALS: 5x7" canvas panel, Liquitex heavy body professional paint, small brushes and a small palette knife. PRO TIP: Thought you might like to see my palette so I put paint on an 8" styrofoam plate. I mist it with water on occasion to keep the paints from drying out

Hey Happy Campers! I am posting up to the minute progress photos of "GiGi" over on my Facebook Fan Page! Here I am going to assemble the comments and post in one area for those who start following Jeff's progress in the middle and want to catch up. MATERIALS: 15" x 30" gallery wrapped canvas, 1.5" deep. Liquitex Professional Heavy Body Paints. Palette knives and brushes. Meet "GiGi"! My grown up, favorite daughter Emily LOVES giraffes! I painted "Jeff" for her new apartment l

Photo permission @bellesmusic from Instagram Hi Happy Campers! So, I gotta say first, what do you think Bella @bellathecutestcorgi is thinking in this photo above?! "Yeah, yeah, the portrait of me is cute, but I know I am the cutest!" OR, "hey, I was doing something before you picked me up!" This photo just cracks me up! AND I absolutely love that the SUPER talented duo The Belles posted this pic on their social media sites! I am very grateful to them for their support and in

Above Left to Right: Penelope - Joanne G. won a free pet portrait since she follows this blog; Izze - Diane S.'s family member who has passed, photo I painted from provided by Cahlean Klenke Hey Happy Campers! As an artist, I enjoy creating! Guess what I am now offering - yep! pet portraits! I don't know about you, but my cat Freckles (who is the president of AnnieTroe.com, process photos below) is such an important family member. Like many of you, I just LOVE animals! Behind

Hey Happy Campers! I am posting up to the minute progress photos of "Jeff" over on my Facebook Fan Page! Here I am going to assemble the comments and post in one area for those who start following Jeff's progress in the middle and want to catch up. MATERIALS: 12" x 24" gallery wrapped canvas, 1.5" deep. Liquitex Professional Heavy Body Paints. Palette knives and brushes. Meet Jeff! My grown up daughter Emily LOVES giraffes and I have been thinking about painting a giraffe por

Hey Happy Campers! I have had several comments on social media that people would like to watch how I paint. Problem is, that if it is in real time, this little 5" x7" painting took seven hours to finish (including the background which I didn't film). SO, I filmed several part of the painting process, put them together in iMovie on my computer and sped it up 20 times! Let me know what you think of this home made iPhone video. I think that next time it needs to be shorter. This

Hey Happy Campers! I am very grateful for TWO magazines for helping me to reach more people and grow my art business! BIG SHOUT OUT to Cute Dog Addicts and FOCUS magazines. The funny thing is that they both ended up featuring me in the same month. Thank you so much for following and supporting my artist life! #pet #petportrait #dogportrait #catportrait #memorialportrait #animalpainting #fineartpaintings #AnnieTroe #horseportrait #fineart #Paintings #artlicensing #artlicensing

Above sample gift voucher Hey Happy Campers! I recently added Gift Vouchers to my pet portrait page. You can purchase them for any size of the canvases I offer OR any dollar amount. Go to my pet portrait page for the sizes here. Organizations love them FUR-ADORABLE! I have sold gift vouchers for charitie's fund raisers and organizations for prizes/gifts. I really appreciate being a small part of their events! Above are a couple of process photos of Rosie's 4"x4" portrait and