Companion Animal Portrait Artist

My wife is an avid reader of Celebrating Greyhounds magazine. Recently she was devouring the latest issue in which she found mentioned artist Kent Roberts. I wasn't too excited about being distracted from my current project to view another greyhound related website (an even that occurs all too often in our home and office).
I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised, as well as amazed. Check out his Pet Portraits.

This is one of Kent Roberts portraits that struck me the most. So many other pet portrait artists that I have seen can't seem to capture the eyes like Kent does. Others, and I'm thinking of one local "artist" in particular, look-- well they just look cartoonish really. Roberts charges (according to his website) $185.00 for an 11 by 14, which considering the quality of the work, is a very good deal. We are thinking about comissioning a portrait of our beloved Magic Zambia after the first of the year. If we do, we'll be sure to post it along with out impressions of communicating with the artist.