A lesson learned.

I will think about this painting and remember it is not always the case when people say, we love what you do feel free to do what you think is best.  I had trouble getting in touch with my clients of my current painting. But they had assured me they loved my work, I had painted their dog last year and they wanted a painting of their aunt's dog as a gift for her. They sent me 5 or 6 shots and said do what you think is best she is hard to get pictures of. I sent updates but never heard anything back. I would normally have stopped work on the painting till I received a response but given the fact that they said, do whatever I proceeded, oops! I sent pics of the finished painting today to 3 different email addresses as I wasn't sure why I had 3 email addresses but assumed one of them would get a response. The reply was, gosh this really doesn't look like her, sorry we never received your other updates, actually my wife loves it but, it just doesn't look like her to me. So chalk it up to experience, animal portraits need to be what the client thinks is right! Back to the easel.