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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Sophie

"Sophie"
Aceo, Faber-Castell colored pencil on Bristol Smooth

This piece is for Elsie. Her sweet Irish Setter Sophie loves attention and loves to tell you when anything is happening. I took this photo in her kitchen, and you may have noticed that I like the perspective of dogs with noses up front! Silly. It makes me smile! Last week, I drew a graphite illustration from the same picture, but I took some liberties with it.

Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils are nice to work with. Dick Blick has some great pricing on them, too. I bought mine at Sam Flax and paid a bit more, unfortunately, although my set is not yet complete! I think I'll finish it off at Blick.

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2 comments:

  1. Very cute! I love the eyes. :) I sent you an important email Rebecca. If you don't get it you can write to me at makepeace.arts[at]gmail[dot]com.

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  2. You took this photo from her kitchen? Does she have an astroturf floor? Do you play flag football on it?

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