He is basically an old man at this point.
The funny part is he still looks like a puppy and people ask me all the time How old is your puppy? When I enlighten them that he is actually almost 9 they are always quite shocked!
Like mother like fur son they always say! Last week a 19 year old kid asked me for ID in a dive bar I popped into to grab a quick I calm down my ex hacked into my Air Miles account and used them all up beer. I actually had to go out to my car to get my ID, in what world do I look like I am under 19? For real!? Thank you for the compliment though :)
Anyhow back to my dog shrine...
Here is the finished product!
Well I actually still have to sign it but other than that it is finished! I looked back and I decided to start painting this 28 days ago according to my Steemit blog. I am really happy with the outcome, I never really know where my paintings will end up but I quite liked this one.
This photo was my inspiration for the painting, it was taken in our old yard back in Coldstream. His face just kills me every time I look at it, he totally is giving the camera the stink eye!
I am going to post a bunch of pictures showing my progression for this painting. I wanted to show this little girl the progression so she could see how some people paint. She is a great artist at the age of 13 but she is a perfectionist and seems to think once a paint stoke has been laid that is where it will stay.
For me that is not the case at all, my paintings normally start looking like one thing and end up being something totally different. This painting I actually tried to start on top of another canvas that had some weird print on it but my paint would not stick so I had to grab a fresh canvas. You can see a bit of the first painting in the back ground.
The canvas I am working on is 18x24 inches.
I know we are all metric but I still like to measure somethings in inches and feet, not really sure why... 46x61cm
I love bright colours but they are sometimes hard to hang. Some people want something bright and exciting on their wall but others want something that goes with the flow of the room, something more subtle.
My background was quite bright but I soon realized that I wanted something I would hang in my house, and I knew those colours were too much! I decided to tone it down a little.
I typically like to get the background done first before I paint my subject because I would rather touch up the back ground than the subject, it is way easier.
For this painting I blocked everything in, did a few details then worked on the background until I was almost happy with it and then continued with the main focus of the painting.
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I have already had three people see this painting who have all asked me to paint a picture of their dog. I totally will do it I really enjoyed this painting.
Granted one of those people may have been my mom asking but she still counts! She has three dogs so it would be a lot of work.
The shirt was fairly challenging for me, I reworked it quite a few times. Sometimes I find you just have to be happy with how it looks and move on because you may never be able to capture certain parts the way you want to. I suppose you could keep reworking it over and over and over until the paint became so thick it would look 3D. How ever I choose to just let it go!
Voila! There it is, my first canvas completed in my Ode to Chad series!
Let me know below what you think or if you have any questions comments about this painting or anything really! Thanks for taking the time to pop by, hope you enjoyed the process and the finished product!
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