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Pictured: Laura Mann's dog Henry in amongst her felt creations.
Can you spot the real dog?
An artist creates felt caricatures of dogs that are so good it’s hard to tell the real thing from the WOOF copy.
Talented Laura Mann fashions amazing life-like impressions of peoples’ favourite furry friend from her studio in Llandudno, North Wales.
The 26-year-old now has customers all over the world after her recreations of man’s best friend caused a sensation online.
These remarkable photographs show just how incredibly detailed Ms Mann’s work is, as in one picture showing dozens of her artistic copies it’s hard to tell which is a real dog, called Henry.
It takes bloodhound instincts to be track Henry down amongst the mind-boggling array of 143 other impersonating pooches.
Those with keen eyes should eventually him spot him on the seventh row down (from the original, uncropped image), second from the right, where the four-year-old King Charles spaniel is hiding.
Young entrepreneur Ms Mann has been running her business, Laura’s felt dogs, for the past four years and has seen the popularity of her pieces rocket.
She said: “I posted a photo of the felt dog on social media and accidently started my business after receiving a lot of attention, now I make 400 plus felt caricatures a year selling via Facebook and Instagram under the name Laura's Felt dogs.
“Customers send an image of their dogs via private message to place an order and then are start on their 10cm tall model made of Corriedale wool.
“They each cost £40 each plus postage and package and I ship all over the world, with my biggest customer base in the USA.”
Ms Mann said she had the idea for her spot the dog collage after so many people told her how life-like her pieces were.
She said: “I had so many pictures, so I made a collage of my creations. People started commenting it would be funny if I slipped a real dog in the photograph, so I had a go
2024-01-09
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