Schmetzpetz.net- The art of Animal Artist Jay Schmetz. These items make great gifts for animal lovers and can only be found here on ebay. I have been an artist my whole life.In the Mid 1990's I went SCAD and graduated with a masters in Painting in 1998. I met my wife shortly after and worked at her families gallery. My wife was already involved in animal rescue of pot belly pigs and dogs. and since then we have rescued so many animals I lost count. My wife went onto become a veterinarian. From the beginning we had a small animal sanctuary on our mini farm were we live and in a sense these rescue animasl became a source of inspiration for my paintings, I depict of a world were i see animal as humans.