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Looking into the history of the Border Collie-first steps in understanding the working sheepdog. 2008-06-06 14:46:16 Last Sunday was not only an inspiration for my equine art but turned out to be quite inspirational for my canine art as well. The show brought back vivid memories of our beloved BorderCollie
Bess. (Working sheepdogs were present and were just as keen, responsive and sharp as I remember our wee Bess.) Reflecting on those memories, I came to the conclusion that I am clueless about the history o Read more:steps
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Canine Art Guild new online show 2008-06-03 13:31:49 The Canine
Art Guild
s' 4th online
exhibition, "Canine Pot Luck," is now online at www.canineartguild.com/gallery .The show is essentially an artists' choice, and there is a beautiful selection of artwork by CAG members.There's also cash prizes for People's Choice, so please, stop by and cast your vote!! ( This is my very subtle hint for you to look out for my 3 entries...!) Seriously the work is g
The other side of creating art, collecting inspiration for free. 2008-06-01 15:38:09 Would you agree if I said the best things in life are free?Would you still agree if I went on to say the best things in life are not things at all? Today the best thing was equine.My collection of vital reference photographs grew by 300 pics... A little thing for most people. For an artist who needs loads of well detailed photographic info as well as home made photos for inspiration it
Study in graphite of horse's leg 2008-05-27 13:15:58 The coffee shakes finally wore off (bad time management there!) and the finishing touches were finally drawn with a steady hand.Here's "Elbow Room".The wee story behind this drawing is the direct result of Albert Camus' fantastic quote "freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better". SO, I decided to take a (well needed) break from commission and exhibition work, let go of the various press Read more:Study
ACTION, using the power of the internet... 2008-05-27 07:26:55 Another "in between post"...I've had too much coffee and have the shakes. Not ideal for the finishing touches I am tackling. Good time to stop and think.Millions of peoples lives devastated.Nature is lashing out.Helplessness and grief radiating.Pondering, reflecting and now reacting.Power. We all have very little in the light of the current natural disasters that have hit Burma and China.The Power Read more:power
"Jess" cute kitten, new pet with the makings of a mascot. 2008-05-25 15:38:54 The week-end has come to an end and before the week takes off with speed here's a little "in-between post" posts. - A post with a strong ohhhh loooook factor!This is our wee Jess. 6 weeks old. A wee cutie, a fluffy ball.She is the new addition to the clan. The girls, as you can well imagine, are over the moon and so, I believe, is Jess. Kittens seem to adore the clumsy attention that young
Rien Poortvliet, Dutch artist and illustrator well worth remembering. 2008-05-21 04:20:58 I proudly presentRien Poortvliet (1932- 1995)Rien was born in Schiedam, Holland. (His name may not ring a bell straight away but mention the word Gnome and bells sound, resound, loudly, happily...)Rien's "shortish" BiographyHis parents were strict Dutch
Reformists. They had Rien's future firmly mapped out and were quite opposed to the idea of their oldest son going to study art.Rien's talent was a
Approved, polished, framed: Final steps in Jack Russell pencil portrait 2008-05-19 14:58:51 Here they are, two peas in a pod, cheeky, tweaked and framed
. Basti and Titus have been approved and will be making there way off to Germany.Kept my pencil away from them over the week end (most of you have no doubt noticed the revamped blog.... This is a direct result of not allowing myself to go back too soon to tweak). Hope you like the new look I've given my "Black on Grey on White". So: sp Read more:Final
, Russell
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Finishing stretch in new commissioned canine portrait 2008-05-16 12:32:41 Here they are: pretty much finished.I spent another 4-5 hours on Basti. Working on his ear and teeth mainly and achieving a little more shape to his head and nose.The result so far is quite OK. Now I put the drawing out of sigh. Not seeing it for a couple of days means: fresh eyes, being able to instantly pick out any mistakes, sternghten the weaknesses and/or "not so strong"patches. During this
Canine commission: start of second Jack Russell 2008-05-15 14:35:03 After reaching a bit of standstill on Monday, I carried on by starting with the eye on the second Jack Russell
. Basti is much darker, has slightly bigger and darker eyes as well as a straight ear.For the eye I sketched it out with a 2B, drew the pupil in using a 5B and I went from there. When drawing eyes I find it very important to keep picturing them in my mind (how I remember them)as opposed Read more:Canine
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