Paulie's Pet Portraits

2009-08-13T05:21:00.000-07:00

Pauly Paul paints pets! Commission a lovely original painting of your loved one today. Just e mail your photos and receive a beautiful one of a kind stencil painting. Price varies according to size.

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2009-05-02T18:59:00.001-07:00

Louis Vuitton Lab
In the collection of Billy Welsch

2009-03-10T20:11:00.001-07:00

The one that got away

2009-03-09T18:38:00.000-07:00

Trouble Update

2009-02-26T07:54:00.001-08:00

Leona Helmsley
Trouble (pictured), the Maltese poodle left behind by the late Leona Helmsley, who died last August at 87. In papers that were reportedly unsealed today, Manhattan surrogate court judge Renee Roth, along with New York State’s Attorney General’s Office, reduced Trouble’s trust fund from $12 million to $2 million. According to the report in the NY Post, the deal also entailed $6 million in payments to Helmsley’s two disinherited grandchildren, amid their allegations that Helmsley wasn’t mentally competent when she signed her will. As for Trouble’s future well-being, she now resides in Florida with Carl Lekic, the general manager of the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel, reports the NYP. In an affidavit, Lekic said that “Two million dollars . . . would be enough money to pay for Trouble’s maintenance and welfare at the highest standards of care for more than 10 years, which is more that twice her reasonably anticipated life expectancy,” he said. Lekic put Trouble’s annual expenses at $190,000, which includes Lekic’s $60,000 guardian fee, $100,000 for ’round-the-clock security, $8,000 for grooming, $3,000 for miscellaneous expenses, $1,200 for food and anywhere from $2,500 to $18,000 for medical care. Helmsley’s will had asked that either her brother or grandson care for the dog, but both took a pass. Last September, the LB noted the NYP’s interview with Rachel Hirschfeld, who calls herself a pet-trust lawyer. Hirschfeld felt that Trouble was getting short-shrifted by Helmsley’s lawyers and family. “It’s outrageous what’s happening here,” Hirschfeld told the NYP, citing the report that Trouble isn’t living with the man Helmsley asked to take care of her.

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BASHO

2008-06-20T05:43:00.000-07:00

Portrait Commissioned by Sandra Lawton and Keith Belles

Susan & Alix

2008-06-18T09:03:00.000-07:00

2008-06-18T09:01:00.002-07:00

Portrait of Iris Clert

2008-06-18T09:01:00.001-07:00

2008-06-18T08:59:00.000-07:00

Beauregard -Dick and Ritchie Scaife's Dog

2008-06-18T08:52:00.000-07:00

After Dick had Ritchie arrested and thrown in jail (and stories about it appeared in his newspaper), Ritchie and the Scaife’s three dogs—including Dick’s favorite, a yellow Lab named Beauregard (Dick says Beauregard was a gift from Ritchie; Ritchie says the couple owned the dog together)—moved in with Pietragallo and his wife, Helena, who is one of her oldest friends. Then, in March 2006, Dick arranged for a sign to be made and placed on his front lawn: wife and dog missing—reward for dog. Beauregard, who is said to be a descendant of a dog that belonged to a King of England, is the only member of his species to have had his portrait painted by Chas Fagan, an artist perhaps best known for the official White House portrait of Barbara Bush. Soon after the missing sign appeared in Dick’s front yard, Beauregard disappeared from the Pietragallos’ backyard—“snatched” by an employee “who was actually a double agent” working for Dick, Pietragallo says. Not long afterward the sign on Dick’s lawn was replaced by a new one that said, welcome home, beauregard.Then, on April 6, 2006, Ritchie was driving down Dick’s street and saw Sue Patterson, Scaife’s 54-year-old housekeeper, walking the dog. According to court documents, Ritchie stopped the car in the street, got out, and ran toward Beauregard, screaming “He’s taking everything from me; I’m taking his dog.” She then allegedly beat the woman about the head and neck, pulled her hair, pushed her down, and kicked her—leaving a footprint on her white blouse. When Genevieve Still, Dick’s head housekeeper, came to Patterson’s aid, she claims, Ritchie kicked her too. (“And she knows I have cancer,” says Still, who is 79.) Dennis Bradshaw, a former Secret Service officer now in charge of Scaife’s security, attempted to break up the fight. Ritchie allegedly scratched his face and broke his glasses and threw them on the ground.Assault complaints against Ritchie were eventually dismissed, after a hearing where a bystander testified that Ritchie, while wrestling for the dog, also hollered, “ ‘Keep the prostitute,’ or something like that.” (From a distance, the witness said, the clash over Beauregard “looked like two kids fighting over a toy.”) The ruling magistrate in the case said, “They should’ve given her the dog,” adding, “This is nonsense. I’m not going to participate in this. This is absolute, total nonsense.” With personal-injury lawsuits against Ritchie by all three employees pending, Pietragallo forbade Ritchie to answer questions about the incident.
--MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/02/scaife200802

2008-06-18T08:51:00.000-07:00

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Cat Milk

2008-06-14T11:06:00.002-07:00

Cat

2008-06-14T11:06:00.001-07:00

Bad Pussy

2008-06-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

Virgin Mary

2008-06-14T11:04:00.000-07:00

Virgin Mary Emptying the Cat Box

2008-06-14T11:03:00.000-07:00

Cat Poo

2008-06-14T10:54:00.000-07:00

Scrappy & Nuggett

2008-06-14T10:53:00.000-07:00

Scrappy & Nuggett

2008-06-14T10:52:00.002-07:00

Frenchy - Paris

2008-06-14T10:52:00.001-07:00

Frenchy - Paris

2008-06-14T10:51:00.001-07:00

Frenchy Paris

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Betty's Bobcat

2008-02-10T16:48:00.000-08:00

Bobcat Drawing in the style of Andy Warhol

2008-02-09T05:24:00.000-08:00