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February 8, 2008

Dog art: Is your's the next Pawcasso?

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To the left you see the basic dog paw print -- a lovely thing, to be sure, in itself.

But two Annapolis women are taking the paw-tograph to the next level, and creating floral art with your dog's help.

They call them "Paw Posies."

Patsy Helmetag and Rosemary Williams will be showing exactly how they do it at dogma, the pet store in Baltimore's Canton neighborhood tomorrow.The store is located at Conklin and Boston Streets.

From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they'll be creating their muttsterpieces, with help from the dogs in the crowd. Patsy prints the paws and passes them to Rosemary, at her easel, who then transforms the paw prints into floral art.paws%2520posies%2520-%2520after.jpg

At a recent sold-out event in Annapolis, Patsy and Rosemary churned out 67 Paw Posies -- like this one built upon the paws of a dog named Paco (bottom left) -- in six hours.

“It’s not exactly where I pictured my painting career going," said Rosemary, a former broadcast news producer but I cannot imagine having more fun. Every event, every Posie, is a real hoot!”

For $30, you get your own original work based on your dog's paw print, and a share of the proceeds goes to animal charities, such as the ASPCA and Happy Tails, a no-kill shelter.

Patsy and Rosemary have also introduced a do-it-yourself kit, for $25, available through their web site, Pawposies.com.

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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