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We asked to see your pet artwork — you unleashed your creativity

A pug beagle dressed as a Tudor gentleman. A colorfully rendered cockatoo. Sculpture. Stained glass. Cross stitch. We asked you to share artwork inspired by your pets, and you all outdid yourselves.
Source: Michelle Wickstrom

Last month, Chloe Veltman reported on artists who've found inspiration in their pets: Pablo Picasso made studies of Lump, an adored dachshund; Frida Kahlo's catalogue is packed with self-portraits featuring her pet monkeys and parrots.

We were curious to see what other pet-inspired artworks were out there, so we asked you to share some of yours, and dear readers, you did not disappoint. Below is just a small sampling of the hundreds of masterpieces we received. (Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.)

As a student of photography and an animal lover, Andrea Jones of Urbana, Ill., says she always loved Eadweard Muybridge's Animals in Motion series. So she enlisted her husky, Lucy, to riff on those famous images.

"I often took pictures of Lucy from a balcony inside my house that overlooked the living room floor, where Lucy frequently lay

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