Paint Your Pet Handkerchief Workshop
Turn your favorite pet into a one-of-a-kind wearable keepsake! In this hands-on workshop, you’ll create a portrait of your pet — or any little character or object you love — on a vintage-inspired floral cotton hankie.
What’s included:
One floral cotton hankie
Fabric oil pastels
Fabric acrylic paints
Fabric medium to help set and protect your finished design
Brushes and all other painting materials
Step-by-step guidance throughout the workshop
🐶 A dog model for those who’d like to draw from life
Workshop Calendar
Cancellation & Refund Policy: Refund requests must be made at least 7 days before the scheduled workshop. Refunds are not available within 7 days of the workshop date. If you’re unable to attend, you may transfer your ticket to someone else or reschedule to another available workshop date.
Paint Your Pet Hankie
Paint Your Pet Hankie
What You’ll Learn & Make
Bring a favorite photo of your pet to paint from, or take inspiration from our live dog model (Chaser) on site. We’ll guide you through sketching, color, and painting on fabric, so no previous painting experience is needed.
At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home your own hand-painted pet portrait hankie — perfect to wear, tie onto your bag, frame, or simply keep as a little portrait of your companion.
Please note: A live dog will be joining us as our model during this workshop. To keep the space comfortable and safe for our model, please do not bring your own pet to this session. We hope to offer future pet-friendly sessions where you can bring your own pup and paint together!
All materials are included. Just bring your pet photo and come ready to paint. 🐾
Meet Your Instructor
Sherly Fan
Multi-Media Artist & Filmmaker
Sherly Fan is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and immersive installation. Her practice explores vulnerability through the visual language of cuteness, using pastel aesthetics and plush-inspired animal figures to examine emotions often dismissed as excessive, childish, or unserious.
Her works juxtapose softness with tension — fragile animals pierced by ribbons, plush figures resisting their own sweetness, and childlike forms carrying emotional weight. Drawing from lived experiences shaped by cultural and gendered expectations around restraint, Fan reclaims cuteness as both shield and resistance. The sweetness invites viewers in; the emotional weight asks them to stay.
Fan’s work has been presented at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), MoMA PS1’s Printed Matter Art Book Fair, and through a residency with 14C Art Fair.