Dog art: Is your's the next Pawcasso?
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.
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.
