Here is a new shot of Chulita, she is slowly transforming. Such a joy to drive her around. 

Erick

Ok so now I start with the painting of the background. I chose colors that are similar to the home that will be surrounding it. I like punchy colors and I like to do my paintings free flowing, not straight lines or perfect joints. Just let the brush flow softly and with dimension also with texture. Let the paint have texture cause it adds a feeling of three D.  So here you go.

This is the start of color.

Erick

How I Work a Painted Portrait.

So here is my next commissioned pc. This beautiful Lovely Frenchie is named Pudge, I am hoping you will all enjoy the progress on how the painting comes together.  I will show step by step how I do what I do. 

So step one is get many pics from the client. Then pick the best one for the portrait, then enlarge to size on my printer and tape together all parts, then I do a quick outline trace of the image, just to give me an idea of where everything is and goes.  

Then Step two I transfer that trace over to the canvas and that is where all the magic happens. The color starts to get applied. 

But that is another episode. lol so keep an eye out for it. Here are steps one and two.

Erick

Finally I have my new baby in my hands. She is solid and can't wait to start working on her to slowly get her to the look I want for her. The heart is strong and the body is straight. First things first, new rims and tires, second new exhaust pipes and then a loose tail light  wire and we are good to go cruising. wooooohoooooooo. 

Erick

1962 Chevy Bel-Air

My new Old Ride. This here is a 1962 Chevy Bel-Air.

I love the classic cars and have been looking for this year and this style in particular for a bit now. I finally got my hands on one. Now I just need to work on it to get it looking Sick.

My Love for Photography

My Love for Photography is displayed to your right under my links. One is dedicated to objects and the other to landscape and scenery in and around Ontario. Mostly the GTA.  It is amazing the things you can find when you open your eyes.  

Erick Cervantes

Ok so here are some pics of my babies. i guess you can say Frenchies are my life.  I love photography and so I take every opportunity to take shots when ever possible. I do a lot of art photography and nature and just creative imagery. I will be showing such pics in the near future. 

Erick. 

Ok so here is my latest Portrait. This little beauty is Little Mia, although she is not so little anymore she is still a darling Frenchie. Full of energy and ready to take on the world. 

It was a pleasure to do this commissioned Portrait for a really nice family. They know who they are and they loved the image.  I too was very happy with the result. Mia has so much character in this pic and it showed in the portrait.

It always takes a great photo to make a great portrait. Happy birthday to Alicia the Happy owner of Mia's Portriat.

Erick 

Saturday June 7th we went to the biggest dog event of the year in Ontario or should I say North America. We had a great time seeing so many dogs and meeting so many people. It was great, lots of vendors and food and just an all over great time.

I did not get as many pics as I would have wanted but here are two just to show. 

Erick 

Here are a couple of pics of our Late  little girl Sunny. Enjoying her time with each of us. She was definitely a love bug. I was going through our many pics of our babies and it broke my heart to see Sunny as she was before the Cancer and during her illness. there was such a change and it took place so fast. I am glad she passed her last year with us to love us and to bring us joy. Sunny is so missed and it hurts not to have her here in the flesh to hug her or to sniff her nacho scented ears.  Every time my wife sees her pics she breaks down and cries. But this is all part of loving and letting go. 

I often wonder why she came into our lives for such a short time. But regardless she really touched our hearts. Missing our little girl Red (Sunny Sun Sun Cervantes)

Erick

Not long ago when I had my little Red girl Sunny, her mommy Gabby and I would spend some days relaxing about the living room couch.  Here you see a pic of such events.  The girls love nothing better then spending time with their daddy. 

The Progress on the sculpt

So just to update everyone on the Frenchie Bust, I had made the rubber mold on it and then I had covered that with the hard shell material and I missed a few steps in between which caused the shell to stick too much and the rubber to be damaged, also the sculpt broke in a few places and I did some repair work on her and she is good as new now. But now I have learned my lesson and will not skip any parts to the mold making or casting of the sculpture. I have to re do the rubber coating now and then the hard shell exterior again. This time the right way. So bear with me as I learn the proper way to do things, this being my first time doing something of this scale. 

Life is a learning process and what is the best way to learn, ............ by making mistakes. 

Erick

French Bulldog Lawn Plaques

I have made a few of these now and they always look so cute. they are a great way to express your love of the bullies.  Set them up on your lawn or mount them on your wall or fence. Up to you.

I make them to resemble your Frenchies colours out of plywood and hand paint them. Cartoonish looking just to give them a cute look. You can add the bone in the middle with your house number or what ever you would like to put there. They don't have to be in this position either.  

I can make them to suit your wants.

Erick C

Frenchie Lawn Plaques

At the end of every tunnel...........

This is my latest  pc to finish. It has taken me 2 years to complete.  It is my version of the saying,

"At the end of every tunnel, there is a light of Hope".   (the Frenchie) 

It is an abstract style rendition from my mind. 

This one is up for sale.

 It is 20 x 24 inches in size and painted in Acrylics on stretched Canvas. 

Going price is set at $300.00 Canadian Plus S/H

If you are interested in this pc. Please contact me  with your info.

Erick C

ittybittybullies@gmail.com

The Rubber Coating

So now that the Bust is complete I started applying the rubber moulding compound. This is a very good detail capturing rubber that will give me a great result in the end. I need to put like 4 layers of the rubber coating and between each of the layers it has to dry approximately 1 hour.  At the back I need to build a wall about one inch deep and one inch wide all the way down the back. This wall is where I will be slicing the sculpt in order to get the Bust out of it. But before I pull out the Bust, I need to build a hard shell cover for the support around the rubber so that it maintains its shape without distortion.   This will take place after I have the 4 layers of rubber. tonight I was only able to put 2 layers of Rubber, by the weekend I will be doing the other two layers and then making the hard shell. Ill keep you all posted. But for now you can see the images of the work.

Erick C

Acrylic Paintings

Below here are some of my Acrylic paintings I have done on Canvas. 

These were also commissioned pcs and it was fun to do them. 

I love using rich colors and the anticipation of the finished pc is always at the tip of my mind. But patience is the best part of this work. I tend to do a little at a time so as to get the best result. I will often start a pc and then walk away from it for a day or two. Then I will put in approximately 4 hours and walk away again.  I will keep it in eye view so every day that I walk by it I can see new things in it to fix or to add or to erase. Now doing the pencil work is awsome, I love doing fine lines and using specialty tools to get the effect that I am looking for. When I paint I tend to squint my eyes to see more then I am looking at. Not sure if that makes sense but that is what I do. It helps me to see all over areas and to get shades and similarities from the subject photos. it is a great way to express my artistic insight I guess. 

Enjoy.

Erick C

My Pencil Portraits

Below are some of my past Graphite Pencil Portraits. I did these as commissioned pcs and I am proud of them.  This is why I like to show them.  

Erick C

My Pencil Portraits