Sally Devinney Watercolor & Pastel Studio

Watercolor & Pastel Studio

Quiet, personal watercolor paintings.

Custom pet portraits, greeting cards, ocean landscapes, and natural scenes painted with calm attention to color, light, and detail.

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Featured Work

Recent paintings from the studio.

Portrait of a Golden Retriever dog created with soft pastels against a blue background

Pet Portrait

Commission Example

Casey

soft pastels on paper · 11 X14

Seagulls flying above the sand dunes

Ocean Landscape

Available

Gulls over Dunes

Giclee print of a watercolor

a stormy grey sky and sea with a large white sailboat heading to shore

Ocean Landscape

Available

Stormy Sail

Watercolor on paper · 11 X 14 matted

Greeting Cards

A small work of art, ready to send.

Sally’s watercolor and pen-and-ink studies become distinctive note cards for birthdays, thank-yous, and thoughtful hellos.

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Pen-and-ink seashell greeting card
Shell study
Blue watercolor jellyfish greeting card
Blue jellyfish

From Photo to Portrait

The details they love, translated by hand.

A favorite expression, a familiar tilt of the head, the exact color of their eyes—each commission begins with the moments a customer wants to keep.

See how commissions work

Sadie

Customer photograph of Sadie, a black Labrador wearing a pink collar
Customer photo
Finished pastel portrait of Sadie mounted in a white mat
Finished portrait

My Best Friend

Customer photograph of a short-haired brown dog
Customer photo
Finished soft pastel portrait of a brown dog against a blue background
Finished portrait

Rhaegar

Customer photograph of Rhaegar, a black and white Australian Shepherd
Customer photo
Finished pastel portrait of Rhaegar against a blue background
Finished portrait