{"id":637,"date":"2011-05-19T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/?p=637"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:10:44","slug":"drawing-dog-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/2011\/05\/19\/drawing-dog-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Dog Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drawing Dog Portraits for the American Cancer Society’s Bark for Life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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There are hundreds of public service ads and commercials asking for donations to 9-11, Katrina, the tsunami and tornado victims, to orphaned children, abandoned pets, and more. Especially in this economy it\u2019s difficult to always give cash, but many of us have special talents, so we can contribute in our own way.<\/p>\n

Seven years ago I approached the American Cancer Society<\/a> and offered to sketch pets at their Bark for Life<\/a>, charging $20 a sketch and donating all the money collected to them. Each year since I\u2019ve organized a group of illustrators and cartoonists associated with the Society of Illustrators<\/a> to sketch with me. We\u2019ve donated between $700 and $1600 a year, depending on how many artists participate. This past Sunday we drew 38 dog portraits in 3 hours, raising $760 for the ACS. It was a fun time\u2026 our models don\u2019t hold very still, but it\u2019s so much fun.<\/p>\n

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Joan Chiverton teaches SXD 635: Quick Sketching for the Pet-Product Business<\/a> and SXG 140: Storyboard Techniques Studio for Costume Design<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Drawing Dog Portraits for the American Cancer Society’s Bark for Life There are hundreds of public service ads and commercials asking for donations to 9-11, Katrina, the tsunami and tornado victims, to orphaned children, abandoned pets, and more. Especially in this economy it\u2019s difficult to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-templates\/post-middle-column.php","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5935,8565,37],"tags":[38566,8580,20,38567],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certificates","category-pet-fashion","category-event","tag-classes","tag-industry-events","tag-news","tag-pet-fashion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v7EM-ah","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}