Pets are special and I completely understand why you would want to have a beautiful piece of functional art to celebrate them. Whether it’s a new pet or a glass to honor the memory of one loved and lost it’s so nice to have something to remember them. Paw prints with ink, taken the way we do for handprints, usually result in the best etching, but animals usually fight the cold wet ink more than babies. Also, sometimes if your favorite pet has passed away there isn’t a way to get that type of print. With our editing software we can usually get prints to work from both clay imprints and photographs of the paw as well.
Prints with ink
A lot of the paw prints we create on glassware are memorials. If you take your pet to a funeral home or the vet to be comfortable at the end of their life they will often take a print for you to keep, and this will 100% work well with our process. Like I mentioned in the human print blog post small imperfections are really what make your etching really yours. All the little extra hairs that get caught in the paws, a stray claw mark off in the corner, or a little bit of a smudge can really capture the essence of your favorite four-legged friend.
Ceramic imprint? No problem!
When my beloved Pantalimon passed away it was terrible timing, my mother in law had just gone into the hospital, and I was so distraught over both terrible events, and very concerned with getting my poor Paner to the funeral home I completely forgot to get a paper print or ask for one. Fortunately the funeral home we took him to got us a ceramic imprint. I cherish this piece of plaster so much, and was so grateful I had a print to turn into a memory. Most often the depth of the ceramic imprint allows us to change the contrast and brightness on the image you send and we can pull the print for your order directly from there.
Noses!
We can also do nose prints much easier than photographs of your pet. We use the same technique as the ceramic imprint to pull out the nose details which gives us a cute image that mimics your pretty pet sticking their nose in everything you’re working on. This image is our pretty girl Donkey (named after the way her ears go back when she’s sitting pretty, she looks just like Donkey from Shrek! LOL). She hardly ever sits still enough for a picture so she’s waiting for the treat that’s just off camera in this picture. It’s much easier to get a nose in focus than an entire pupper.
Take a look below to see how these prints turned out.
