Bull Terrier

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A few years ago, I posted this sketch of a couple of bull terriers in someone's yard in Kauai. It has taken me all this time to finally do a small painting of one of them.

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First I turned him around to face right, working on an 8 x 10-inch canvas panel in acrylics. I like it on the abstract ground, but never seem to be able to leave it at that.

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So I put the dog in a Hawaiian setting.

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And added foliage to give the dog some scale.

Menorca 1981

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Leafing through my sketches from my 1981 European trip (see yesterday's post), I came across this, from our stay on Menorca. I seem to have sketched as much about the food as the landscape.

Bull Terriers Sketch

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I guess I have dogs on the brain lately. These are a pair of bull terriers that I saw behind a fence on Kauai. When I stopped to photograph them, they both went into an instant frenzy, barking and tearing along the fence. The one in the foreground paused long enough for a good reference shot, but the other one never stopped moving. His legs are a blur, a challenge when I get to painting.