A Dog Named Baxter
Last week of September, 2013
Work in Progress

The weekend of the 27th I was in Maryland and DC, attending my 15 yr college reunion and visiting friends. The week leading up to it I was working on this, a portrait of a friend’s dog, RIP. It’s a bit of a challenge as a commission as the extant photos are not ideal – as you can see in the upper left, the photo shows his face in dark shadow, which just won’t do for a portrait. I’ve been extrapolating from other photos and pictures of similar dogs (Rhodesian Ridgebacks, liver nosed) to get a better handle on the dog’s coloring. It’s kind of nice to use a brush again, after all these years. Anyway as you can see, there’s still quite a bit of work to be done here.