Capturing the Dog.
October 21, 2009
Having spent many years wandering around the woods with dogs, training dogs and living with dogs I’ve developed a visual sense of “dog character”. Dogs show mood and intention by body posture and eye. Actually humans do too but they often give it away verbally so we tend to pay less attention to it.. We call it body language.
"Ponder" All my paintings start with these tiny idea sketches.
I’ve never painted a portrait of just the head of the dog. There is certainly nothing wrong with this and it has been done throughout the history of the genre, but I have always believed that the whole dog shows ….the whole dog.
