Bull Terrier

© Ellen Blonder

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.

© Ellen Blonder

So I put the dog in a Hawaiian setting.

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And added foliage to give the dog some scale.

Charlie-Graphic

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I'm just about done with Charlie images, but I did have this one sketch in my sketchbook that I wanted to try to convert into a silhouette.

Reluctance

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Amazing how a dog will let you know when it doesn't want to go in the direction you want to take him. My friend Wendy and her dog Bear Lee were a perfect example. I sketched this from a photo I snapped on a recent walk. Maybe I'll turn it into a painting.