Every year Trekell Art Supplies hosts a pet portrait competition where they offer a uniquely shaped birch wood panel for artists to use to complete a pet portrait painting for submission into their contest at various levels of proficiency for cash prizes, brush sets, or gift certificates. This is my second year participating, with a portrait of my beloved Bear last year, and one of my baby Stella this year. I was recently notified that I actually won second place in the intermediate category with Stella's portrait! I'm totally shocked and so pleasantly surprised to have been one of the…