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Learning Curve

It took me three weeks (roughly) to paint approximately 25 small dog paintings.
Of those paintings, I will only use 12 for my portfolio.
I am showing some of the "no pile" to you up here, they just are not going to make the cut.

This one below is a YES!
German Shepherd
8" x 8"
oil on canvas board

This one below is a NO!
White Samoyed
8" x 8"
oil on canvas board

The Samoyed didn't work out on such a small scale. Even though I tried to put definition into the fur, it was a hard sell. At least, at this size structure. The German Shepherd was mostly painted with a very small round brush to get in the details. There wasn't much to paint with.
So I learned two things from this; white dogs need to be painted larger or with greater light contrast and 8 inches is as small as I am going to go (with limitations).


As I get better at painting I have found the amount of NO paintings is lessening, but don't be fooled, they are still there. It's what we learn from.


 

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