Portraits of love
Artist turned her pet painting hobby into a comforting side hustle RICH LOPEZ | Staff writerrich@dallasvoice.com If there’s ever a doubt that wine and art don’t mix, Cathy O’Neal will prove you wrong.
Thanks to a fortuitous visit to a Painting with a Twist event, where guests sip wine and follow an instructor’s paint directions, she discovered a whole new passion.
Already a dog lover, O’Neal combined her acrylic brush strokes with barking subjects, and a new chapter opened up. “I started doing it for friends as gifts,” she said. “Elaine Liner said, ‘I hope you’re selling these.’ So in about 2014, people began to pay me to do it.
I do think they can make very thoughtful, personal presents.” Area theatergoers may be familiar with O’Neal either through her work with several local companies as a stage manager or crew member or through her work, which she often donates to theater raffles and silent auctions.
