Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Maddie my Shih Tzu puppy

A couple of weeks ago I took a watercolor workshop at the Red Brick Gallery in Ventura, California with one of the owners Phyllis Gubin where I did a animal portrait of my puppy Maddie.  Phyllis take on animal portraits is colorful and whimsical.   I tend to paint rather tight and realistic, so this class was good for me to play with color and paint wet-on-wet.  As you can see I came home with a beautiful painting of my puppy Maddie which captures her sweet little personality.   The class inspired me so much that I came home and have been painting more whimsical dogs. 

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