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Dog Portraits

These are a great examples of how different dog portraits can be
 even when painted in a similar format.


Take Henry here.
He is a loveable, forgiving, wonderful dog that is always smiling and happy to see you.
He has these amazing eyes and colour markings on his fur.
I incorporated a complimentary colour as background and voila.



Patches is a sweetheart who thinks all 105 pounds of her should make her a lap dog.
Her sad expression always lets her get too many treats.
I cast a blue shadow and used that as a background.




With Selene I wanted a very formal portrait.
The first reason being that she's the type of dog that has harsh bone structure and we can use the dramatic lighting to do this. The second reason is I really wanted to try this background effect.


All were painted at the same time and in a similar format but are so different.

 

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