Final works from Jit Gurung and Shree Lamachhane
April 17, 2022
New works are starting to come in from Jit Gurung. Jit is a well-known artist working in Nepal's second largest city: Pokhara
Juno strikes a casual pose in the first of 3 portraits and shows off her sidelong glance. Jit is an illustrator and cartoonist, and that shows in the simplicity and clarity of line.
Delilah is sitting on her dogfriend Cowgirl's bed and floating in the sky surrounded by clouds.
Buzzy the Shih Tzu looks out on the world with shining eyes and admirable lashes and brows in his first portrait by Jit.
These 3 cats rest on a blue carpet in their portrait by Shree. Shree has been working in S. Korea for the past 10 years and the 3 paintings here mark his return to the Danger Dog project. He was a sport about restocking paints and brushes after all these years. Those 10 years of remittance work gave his son a chance to become a civil engineer, his daughter to finish 12th form and his wife to run a small departmental store.
Mozzarella, the Papillion mix. Her portrait by Shree returns to Shree's earlier style that I found so charming when I first came across him in 2008. He always placed his dog in Elysian fields and was the only artist I have worked with that already had existing Beware of Dog signs in his shop.
In Shree's portrait of Bodhi, the Shepherd Hound mix, he replaces the rug with a fanciful round pillow. Shree likes to redecorate a bit. Once he turned a beige couch into a pink and yellow confection, with an Italian Greyhound as an odalisque.
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Please stay tuned for more works in progress and finals to come! If you would like to have your dog (cat, horse, chicken, bunny, bearded dragon, etc.) immortalized on metal here in Nepal, it is not too late.
I will be back in the US in early May, in time for Mother's Day and Father's Day gifts.
You choose the style, the color, what you would like the sign to say... You can also check out NepalDog.com, as I have over 72 breeds of dog (and counting) and many cats.
This hand-painted art form is fast disappearing in Kathmandu, as it already has in most parts of the world. I pay fair trade wages, the artists get to paint again, pet lovers get a choice of three paintings for each commission, and I get to help Nepali artists make a living.
Everybody is happy. Rescue dogs from America get to rescue artists from Nepal!
HOW TO ORDER: To order, please send me a photo of your pet. I will give it to three different artists, giving you a choice of 3 paintings and three artists will get work. Each painting is about one square foot and is on metal with synthetic enamel paint. These can be hung indoors or out, be framed or unframed.
While I am in Nepal, your pet will be featured on the Danger Dog Blog, as I stop into the artists' studios and document the works in progress.
Satisfaction is guaranteed as I accept no money up front. If you do not like one of the three, you pay nothing, and the 3 artists are paid in full in any case. Let me know what you want it to say and that's it!
Send your photo to [email protected] or find out more at www.NepalDog.com.
Let's keep these artists painting. American Dogs = Nepali Jobs.
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Micro-finance through art patronage. Trade not Aid.
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