Wet Nose Creative

06/17/2026

Repost from Ashley Reeves
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Another piece I was able to do for Georgia Police K9 Foundation Evening for the K9s event. David Holzemer | Dog Portrait Painter reached out and asked if I could make a custom frame for one of his amazing art pieces.
With Edward Reeves & K9 Jerry Lee/K9 Bane paw print and Edward Reeves hand writing, think it added just a little extra special touch

06/14/2026

FYI for all my K9 friends

06/09/2026

Dozer. Gracie. Maggie.

Today is World Pet Memorial Day and these three are who I'm thinking about.

My chocolate Dozer, Old Lady Gracie (yellow), and who can forget Maggie da’Moo (Moo for short) a black we rescued when
she was 10. For a long time all three of them were just part of how life worked. They were in every room, on every walk, in he background of everything. You don't realize how much of your daily life is built around a dog until they're not there anymore.

They shaped who I am in ways I'm still discovering. The patience. The need to slow down and just be present with something that loves you completely and asks for very little back. I learned that from them.

I painted all three of them. Not for clients — for me.
Because I needed something that felt like them, not just
looked like them.

Everything I put into every portrait I paint now — the time, the care, the need to get the eyes exactly right — that comes from them. I carry them forward in this work every single day.

In our world, we don’t "move on"—we move with. May we strive to be elevated by their loving wisdom, their fierce devotion, and their enduring love. As they have become woven into the very fabric of who we are. 🐾

06/08/2026

Herbert was only supposed to have weeks.

His family rescued him knowing they probably wouldn't have long. They reached out about a portrait pretty quickly — they didn't want to wait.

I never did find out what happened to Herbert.

I think about that sometimes.

But I know that portrait existed before the ending did. And I think that's the whole point of doing this when you still can — not after.

If you've been putting it off, this is me gently saying: don't.

This was one of my very first digital oil paintings I did for someone. I wasn't my best work, but it was a piece I know meant a lot.

Hand painted in Adobe Photoshop using the Wacom Intuos Tablet and Art Pen

06/06/2026

Such an honor to partner with and .lee to create this auction piece for the gala

06/04/2026

I had three Labs at the same time — Dozer, Gracie, and Maggie.

Dozer was a chocolate Lab and honestly my heart dog. Gracie was yellow. Maggie was a black Lab we rescued when she was 10.

All three are gone now.

For about 10 years I volunteered my camera at animal rescues and shelters around Pittsburgh. No dog deserves to be in a shelter. If a good photo could help one get adopted, that was enough reason to show up.

Then the pandemic hit and I had to walk away from all of it. I really struggled with that. I still wanted to use whatever God given talents I had to help dogs in some way I just needed to find a different way to do it.

That's when I found Michelle Parsley — M.Photog., M.Artist, Cr., CPP — one of the founders of digital oil painting techniques at . She taught me how to take a photograph and transform it into a hand-painted work of art, brush stroke by brush stroke in Photoshop.

When I lost Dozer I realized even all those years behind a camera hadn't given me what I actually wanted. Something that captured who he was not just what he looked like. That's really where Wet Nose Creative started. At my desk, in whatever time I could carve out around my day job, trying to figure out how to paint the thing a photo can't quite capture.

I'm still trying to figure that out. I think that's the point.

📸 Dozer Christopher
📸 Gracie Isabella
📸 Maggie'da'Moo

06/03/2026

Good Morning 🌞

Love our morning greetings when we visit Baby and her friend at the horse sanctuary

06/02/2026

A charity with tons of integrity worth giving to

We are so honored to report that the new Charity Navigator ratings were released today, June 2nd, and we at Project K-9 Hero received a 100% rating, completing four out of the four beacons.

Less than 1/10th of 1% of all nonprofit organizations achieve such a high level of distinction and transparency. This is a direct reflection on the dedication of our entire PK9H Staff and Team! They each deserve the credit for helping us maintain 90% Program Services, 4% in Administration, and 6% in Fundraising.

Please take a moment to read all about it, or look up your favorite charity to see how they compare at:

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/811770909

06/02/2026

I read No Ordinary Dog by retired Navy SEAL (Seal Team 6) Will Chesney and I just knew I had to paint Cairo.

Cairo was the Belgian Malinois who served alongside Will on the Osama bin Laden raid. I reached out and asked if I could. Will said yes.

His portrait now hangs besides Cairos combat vest in honor of their time together.

That's where it belongs.

Some dogs have stories the whole world knows. Most don't. But every single one of them deserves to be remembered properly.

If you have a K9 or working dog you'd like me to paint — I'd be honored.

05/25/2026

What today is all about…