We live in a day and age when anyone can easily snap a photo of their beloved pet on their phone, but beautifully painted pet portraits still aren’t a dying art. Ruby Welstead is a talented portrait artist, and she’s taking Instagram by storm with her incredibly realistic pet portraits.
Welstead is a talented artist based in Leyland, Lancashire, who specializes in highly detailed and realistic colored pencil drawings of animals. Her attention to detail is a sight to behold, and it looks like animals in her incredible paintings could easily come alive at any moment.
Welstead always loved animals, and that’s one of the reasons why she decided to specialize in wildlife art and pet portraits, but catching the animal’s likeness wasn’t always easy.
“A drawing of a pet is a one-of-a-kind gift for any occasion. A good quality photograph is required to achieve a proper likeness. It is important for me to get the personality and the character of your pet so sending me multiple pictures always helps,” she writes on her official website.
Welstead’s pet portraits usually capture the beauty of different dog and cat species, but we’ve seen her pay homage to many other animals, including birds, butterflies, cows, and horses.
