Well, being me I've gotten annoyed with background v 3.0 also looking crappy on my other puppy so what to do? Start a second painting of course. Here's the start of "Charlie" a 5x7" acrylic on canvas Still rough of course.

Meanwhile I sketched this one:

"Rainy Day Blues" 5x7 Ink and paper

And in the fine tradition of "bite off more than you're likely able to chew", I signed on for a "Sketchbook In A Month" for October on the Wet Canvas site. One member had a da Vinci sketchbook they'd not much used, which had a little blurb in it stating that if you wanted to learn to draw well you should fill a sketch book every month. (In other words, practice lots!) Well it was decided to run that as a challenge and a bunch of people signed on for it with a choice of sketchbook size and number of pages. I bought an Eraldo di Paolo, A5, 60pgs. While not the most flash it's still nice looking and portable but... that will mean filling about 2 pages every day! A tad ambitious someone also working around small kids, dogs etc!

Some quickie sketch studies

Marker/pen on regular old art diary paper. Most about 5x7"-ish... I needed a break from trying to wrestle out what the heck I want to do about the background of my poor puppy painting. Sheesh, who'd have thought it'd be the background that'd be the hardest bit?!?

"Judges Choice"

"Summer Walk"

"Veterans Day"

"I Can Haz A Belly Rub?"

"Future Flyball Champion" (Positive thinking hey?)

The old foggie chasing after the birds who were blatantly unperturbed coasting high above her, probably wondering what the mad thing was runnning in great circles for.

Acrylic experiement

My grandma used to do oil painting and she was quite good! I've said for awhile I want to go have some lessons and learn to paint but lack the time and funds to do oils, so when I found myself in the dollar store looking at canvases I decided to get a little set of acrylics, a canvas, some brushes and have have a dabble.

I sketched this little fellow, roughed him in over about 15 mins of breakfast the next morning and started in on the details today. The background is going to change don't worry!

And here he is again after about half an hour. Hopefully over the coming week I can find a bit of kid-free time to work on him as he's still in need of a lot of refining!

And a closer up view of his widdle fluffy face...

Puppy is an Aussie Shepherd bred by the late Robyn Sutcliff of Sugargum Kennels in 2006. The sire was Trig aka Gr Ch Dykinta American Trilogy and the dam Elle (I think!) aka Ch. Sugargum Strike it Rich. I'm not which pup as they were all rather alike in looks! LOL