July’s twitter portrait winner!

Holy Mackerel, That’s Alotta Dogs
A record number of you wonderful tweeps took time out of your busy days to enter my free twitter portrait contest this month. I can barely see the keyburd imn tyypng on after reviewing 425 of your fantastic photos. I’m no math whiz, but I think that is a grazillion percent increase in submissions from the first contest in March (which had just one entry). Holy mackerel, indeed!

I truly appreciate every single entry and wish I could paint them all. Alas, there can be only one winner this month…and it’s Kingsley!!

Kingsley submitted by kingzleyking

I chose Kingsley because of his expression. I think. It’s always hard to tell why I choose what I choose. But something about that face just tugged at me. It also helped that the photo was taken close-up, clearly focused and all that good stuff. I believe this is Kingsley’s THIRD time entering so for all of your disappointed tweeps who didn’t win this round, definitely take another stab in August!

Honorable Mentions
But as always–and ever more this time–there were a flurry of fabulous entries which made it almost impossible for me to choose just one. So I would also like to give the following entries honorable mentions:

“Best Inanimate Non-entry”

submitted by pupsthetraveler

“Best Bedhead”

Submitted by amykant

“Most Suspicious Undergarmet Within Frame”

submitted by brokeassbride

“Best Use of Chorus Line Lyrics in a Tweet”
BrokeAssBride: “*cue music* Ruff! I hope I get it. I hope I get it. How many puppies does she Neeed?”

Thank You
It’s been so much fun looking at your dogs and connecting on (and off) twitter. The next free portrait contest on twitter will be sometime in late August. I’ll tweet the deets in a couple of weeks and post Kingsley’s portrait soon! In the meantime, remember, you can always have your dog painted without a contest if you like. (I mean, now that you have amazing photos for me to work from.)

Thanks everyone!

-Aimée