Happy Sunday!

Happy Sunday Morning, well morning here in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. anyway :)

Check out my new blog The Smartest Artist and take away great tips on how to gain confidence and sell your art work on your journey to become the Smartest Artist. 

Hope you are enjoying a wonderful day!  Here's a hand torn paper pet portrait from my archives.  Ollie and Sophie. 

Feeling It

Feeling It...

I've always been obsessed with texture and can often be seen running my hands along everything as I walk by. The love of texture might only be eclipsed by my love of paper. I can spend hours browsing, touching and even smelling paper. This fell in to a natural relationship with Chigirie -- creating art with hand torn, hand made, textured papers.

I am an avid supporter of rescue animals and often feel compelled to create portraits of dogs, cats, horses, owls etc. My very first hand torn paper piece was a dog portrait I created for a rescue fund raising event. This led to a steady commission base business of creating pet portraits from hand torn paper.

People are often excited when they see my work first hand as it has dimension and texture, they can not only see their pet, but feel their portrait too.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoy your time visiting my gallery of hand torn paper creations.

Caleb's Portrait in the Background and a photo of Zoe for the next portrait being created ......

Zoe in Hand Torn Paper

Jack in Hand Torn Paper

Sophie in hand torn paper

Ollie and Sophie in hand torn paper

Hello to my What's on your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW) and Paint Party Friday Visitors!

Here's what I'm working on this week :) A portrait of sweet little Maddie

WOYWW BLOG HOP Julia Dunnit over at Stamping Ground.
PPF PAINT PARTY FRIDAY BLOG HOP  Kristen and Eva Paint Party Friday

Torn Paper Maddie and Artist

My current hand torn paper Pet Portrait of sweet Little Maddie is a memorial, she is gone but not forgotten and her owners wanted a special portrait to remember her by.  Here she is out of torn paper, ready to go on a birch panel.

Taaa Daaa Finished Piece!

Happy Paint Party Friday!  Another wonderful art walk (hop) through blog land.  I am not always able to comment because I'm hopping late at night and the clacking keys wake up my hubby but I do so love perusing through all of the beautiful art you create!  Thanks for stopping by, I love sharing my art and your comments always make my day!

I've had a wonderful week putting the final touches on this hand torn paper pet portrait commission of Elliot and Willow.

ELLIOT AND WILLOW created from hand torn paper 
All Finished and ready for their Momma in Ohio

Hand Torn Paper Elliot and Willow 
20 x20 on solid birch panel 

If you'd like to see more of my work you can find tabs for my portfolio albums above and also a tab to take you to information about the process and pricing for a commissioned custom pet portrait.

Pop Art Style 
Realistic Style


Thanks so much for stopping by Paint Party Friday hosted by the wonderful Eva and Kristen. 



Interested in your own custom, hand torn paper pet portrait?   Book by August 31st for your 2014 portrait (2013 is full) and still get 2013 prices. In September my prices will be increasing for next year. I only have 5 bookings left available for 2014. They book up quickly so please message me soon . 

I can't wait to see your sweet pup or kits photo! I also can create any favorite animals; owls, cows, goats, bears, tigers, giraffes, rhinos etc.....and yes people portraits too.

Artist and Current Work in Torn Paper

Artist Robin Panzer and Willow out of Torn Paper

Artist Robin Panzer and Elliot out of Torn Paper

Elliiot and Willow the Photograph  I worked from

Elliot and Willow created out of torn paper

Happy Paint Party Friday Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing my art.  I can't wait to see yours for this week.  Thanks Kristen and Eva for a fantastic blog hop Paint Party Friday

Paint Party Friday Friday August 2nd

Happy Paint Party Friday

I've had a lot going on this week so today I'll show you my workdesk and my Easel and my person too!


On my studio table is my current hand torn paper commission.  This is Willow and I am creating her brindle coat with Paper Wasp Nest pieces.  The industrious Paper Wasp makes  a nest that literally is paper.  It often has this delicious, stripey look that lends itself well for me to create a Brindle colored pup.

Willow -Commission work in process-Hand Torn Paper

and here is Willow's brother Elliot that I also created from hand torn paper

Elliot created from hand torn paper

and on my Easel is figure painting I just finished.

Solitude 12 X 18 Figurative Nude

Solitude= cropped close up 

Thanks for stopping by to see what I'm creating this week.  I can't wait to see what you're up to! Thank you to the incredible Kristin and Eva for another fabulous blog hop Paint Party Friday

Extra Extra **New exciting daily post on my blog, won't you become a follower (Bottom of Post to follow) and enjoy this daily infusion of color inspiration? Check it out :)

If you're looking for my Color of  the Day post you can find it HERE
New on my blog, Color of the day, 3 beautiful images of each day's chosen color to delight your senses, inspire your palette and palate, kick start your creative muse or just to enjoy. Hope you'll stop by#Color #Coloroftheday #creative #art #RobinPanzer

Color of the Day July 31st, 2013

COLOR OF THE DAY WEDNESDAY, JULY 31ST 2013 

Call it curry, sunflower, sunset, brick orange, rust orange, paprika, golden rod roasted pumpkin....by any name this delicious, warm, mellow yellow orange calls to me today.  Leave a comment with your name for this fabulous color.

Images come from the Flkr Creative Common
Photo Acknowledgements for July 31, 2013
1) Spiral by Umair Mohsin
2) Woodgrain by Ian Beaty
3) Puesto De Sol by Samual Agudino
Some of my art featuring #f18828

Solitude -Robin Panzer 12 X 18 Acrylic

Color: #f18828- Bright Orange
In a RGB color space, hex #f18828 is composed of 94.5% red, 53.3% green and 15.7% blue. Whereas in a CMYK color space, it is composed of 0% cyan, 43.6% magenta, 83.4% yellow and 5.5% black. It has a hue angle of 28.7 degrees, a saturation of 87.8% and a lightness of 55.1%. #f18828 color hex could be obtained by blending #ffff50 with #e31100. Closest websafe color is: #ff9933. Source: