This painting is hanging at a show by the "Palette Pals Art Guild" at the Littleton Town Hall. I totally re-did this painting; first it was strictly a watercolor, but there were so many things I didn't like about it. Soooo, I got out my acrylics and went to work. I loved the original composition, the road, the picket fence and the placement of the house..but hated the brushwork and some of the colors in watercolor. When I was finally done with the re-do, I loved the painting and almost couldn't put it in the show! The feeling of the painting turned out to be much more like I envisioned it would be the first time I painted it. Sometimes I guess you have to paint what you don't want in order to figure out what it is that you DO want.
Oh, and I have no idea what those two white "dots" are....I didn't take the photo with the flash on, but they came from somewhere, I don't know.
Thanks for looking today.
This painting is hanging at a show by the "Palette Pals Art Guild" at the Littleton Town Hall. I totally re-did this painting; first it was strictly a watercolor, but there were so many things I didn't like about it. Soooo, I got out my acrylics and went to work. I loved the original composition, the road, the picket fence and the placement of the house..but hated the brushwork and some of the colors in watercolor. When I was finally done with the re-do, I loved the painting and almost couldn't put it in the show! The feeling of the painting turned out to be much more like I envisioned it would be the first time I painted it. Sometimes I guess you have to paint what you don't want in order to figure out what it is that you DO want.
Another "Sassy" She is a pure white Maltese and look at all the color in this painting!! White just can't be pure white....so it is so fun to play around with the different colors to portray a white...in this case white fur. I like the Sassy series and hope you do too. Thanks for looking today. Double click on the photo of the painting to see it larger and really see the brushwork!
Another thumbnail of Sassy...hey..I had so much fun painting her several different ways and all from the same photo. I drew several poses from the same photo of her....she is a quite happy little dog and I love how these small paintings really capture her little spirit. Thanks for looking today. I'll be posting another thumbnail of her; and then maybe I will be sort of past the Sassy phase!!
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