Here’s a digital painting I just finished of Reggie, our eleven year-old border collie. I’m a bit worried about her, as she has been having some potentially serious ear problems. As a result, she’s been on my mind a lot, so I decided to do a nice portrait of her. I hope she stays around for a few more years…
Here’s another quickie sketch/digital painting. This took about three hours. I’m not crazy about Reggie – she’s looking right at the viewer, which makes her look flat. I might revise this in another version and turn her head a little. Boris has a huge head, which is actually pretty much the way he looks at times. Overall, I’m liking the composition and the forms work well together. The size of this image 18″ x 10″. Even though it’s a loose sketch, I think it will look good framed.
On future images in this series, I’m going to try to keep the loose strokes and color areas. They lend a real spontaneous feel to the image, which is very desirable. At any rate, these are very fun to do, and I don’t see an end to this series anytime soon – there’s a lot of interesting things to explore with these two characters.
Just finished this digital painting/sketch of my two dogs, Boris and Reggie. I’m thinking it would be fun to do a series of these. I spend a lot of time with them, watching and being entertained by their antics, so a series of paintings seems like a low-risk, high-return proposition.
Additionally, I’m itching to do some traditional painting again. I’ve got a ton of blotter paper that, with a coating of gesso, could work well as a base for the series. I think after a couple more digital sketches, I’ll dive into the traditional media. I see these paintings working well in watercolor or even oils. Could be fun.
We try to teach our dogs their proper place in the hierarchy around here, but mostly we just end up sitting on the floor.
The old gal on the right is Reggie. She’s 10 years old and a real sweetie at 50 lbs.
The youngster on the left is Boris. He’s 18 weeks and 50 lbs. at least. Looking at the size of his feet, he’s got a bit more growing to do.
