This is Sadie, the only dog I see on a regular basis! I do Crossfit 5 days a week and this is my wonderful trainer’s dog. Sadie greets us as we walk in he door at 5am, every morning, then goes and sits on her box, waiting patiently to be petted.
Best. Dog. Ever.
I guess I’m finding my stride. I’m starting to develop a looser painting style, limiting my brush choices and loving these little dog paintings. So I painted my Bro-in-law’s pug Leo. May he rest in peace.
I found it was really difficult painting a dog you actually played with and remember petting when he was with us. I teared up a little at the memories. Leo was a good dog. Til the very end.
We miss you little man.
I really have no idea where this need to paint dogs came from so I just practiced on my friend Lindsay’s dog Charlie! Maybe I should have been doing this the whole time!
A new painting! My reference photo was pretty tiny but I made it work!!
Hi everyone! I have a new painting to show you. I was commissioned to paint two Great Danes, Duke and Shelby. Sadly one of them passed away, and my client thought these paintings would be a wonderful gift to the owners to remember their wonderful Dane. So here is the progress on the first painting:
Now let it be known that this was my FIRST dog portrait, I’ve painted muskies and bass and even a pheasant, but I’ve never painted a dog! So overall, I think it went pretty well. Fur is very fun to paint and the eyes are so expressive on a dog. It gives it life and soul. Onto the NEXT!
The Great Dane!
And one more! Enjoy!
Duke turned out really good. I’m very happy with the loose brush style. Lots of grays and greens and browns in there making it so he’s not just a black blob of fur.
