Art by RIG
Custom Animal and Nature Portraits
Custom Animal and Nature Portraits
Custom Animal Portraits
About the Artist
Rosellen Westerhoff conveys her love of animals, and the bond that people share with them, through her artwork. Rosellen primarily depicts her works with colored pencil illustrations highlighted by detail of expression.
When you commission a piece of artwork from Rosellen, you will be pleasantly surprised how the love for your favorite animals can be expressed in a whole new medium. Rosellen shares in your feelings for your animals and will lovingly prepare your personal masterpiece like she has been doing for the past 25 years.
Rosellen recalls one of her most fulfilling achievements was receiving the Hallmark Gold Medal Award for her oil painting "Friends". This painting and the subsequent award crystallized her passion for and the continued development of her love for animal art. Rosellen signs her artwork under her maiden trademark “RIG” that she has been using since the mid-1980’s. Rosellen received an Associates degree in Advertising Design from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1985. Since then she has been doing freelance artwork, including greeting cards, custom murals, commercial artwork (company logos, brochures, etc.), and book illustrations. Rosellen now resides in Montana, where she actively pursues and advances her career with the support of her family, while training her competition dogs and being surrounded by her varied animal companions.
When you commission a piece of artwork from Rosellen, you will be pleasantly surprised how the love for your favorite animals can be expressed in a whole new medium. Rosellen shares in your feelings for your animals and will lovingly prepare your personal masterpiece like she has been doing for the past 25 years.
Rosellen recalls one of her most fulfilling achievements was receiving the Hallmark Gold Medal Award for her oil painting "Friends". This painting and the subsequent award crystallized her passion for and the continued development of her love for animal art. Rosellen signs her artwork under her maiden trademark “RIG” that she has been using since the mid-1980’s. Rosellen received an Associates degree in Advertising Design from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1985. Since then she has been doing freelance artwork, including greeting cards, custom murals, commercial artwork (company logos, brochures, etc.), and book illustrations. Rosellen now resides in Montana, where she actively pursues and advances her career with the support of her family, while training her competition dogs and being surrounded by her varied animal companions.
"I work with colored pencils because I enjoy seeing how each layer of color and each stroke of the pencil can be used to bring depth and expression to a special animal. I begin all of my illustrations with the eyes, because this is how I get in tune with the special personality to be expressed and where the life of the drawing begins.” --RIG