Gilley - Rescue Greyhound Dog Pet Portrait
This is a small acrylic painting I am working on of Gilley, a rescue Greyhound from the UK. Greyhounds have the most beautiful, liquid, expressive eyes that are an absolute joy to paint. As a breed, Greyhounds have such a regal bearing that the deep purple background seemed appropriate for Gilley’s Pet Portrait.
With these smaller paintings, I am really trying to loosen up and capture the essence of the animal without being totally pre-occupied with capturing every last detail like I normally do in my pencil portraits.
I usually do my initial sketch on paper then transfer it to the canvas, but I thought I would just sketch straight onto the canvas this time.
But graphite on canvas dosn’t erase very well, so next time I will transfer my sketch the usual way.
Gilley’s face still need some more work and I need to finish painting the sides of the canvas as I have the painting continueing around the edges.
(8″x10″, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas)
Michelle
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June 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Just love this, and it is not because we also have a rescued Greyhound!
Our little boy, Macc (short for Macchiato (sp) as he is black with a couple of white tips which represents the black coffee with a touch of milk!!).
They are a truely wonderful dog, and the only problem we have with him, is constantly ‘hounding’ (no pun intended) off our BED!! We do have some pics of him on our blog if you want to go and have a look…
Thanks, I will stop by again soon I thik…
Cheers
Bernie
June 5th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Fantastic blog!
As a keen dog owner (2 german shepherds) I love animals depicted in any art foem. I just manage photographs and often feature my pets in photo of the day!
June 5th, 2007 at 10:30 am
I am amazed at how good you are at capturing the animals. I almost wish I had a dog so you could paint it! Would you care to trade blog links?
Trish
http://www.trishishere.blogspot.com
June 24th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
You do NICE work Michelle.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I’m lousy with acrylics. I envy you for that perfect dog portrait using acrylics as your medium. You see, I’m into oil paints. I really think it’s impossible for me to give justice to every detail of a pet or animal portrait using acrylics. But you just did it right!!! Awesome!
July 28th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Hi
I’m new here landed up searching blogs on resources on pets. cool blog you have here, keep it up. i’m also interested in dogs and do have a german shepherd named devil ( named after the phantom’s dog - i was a huge phantom fan in my childhood ) any way its nice to be here. i’ll be back some time later for more updates.
Warm Regards from India
you might find this series
on dogs in our blog interesting. do leave comments there. see ya.
Bijoy
Kerala, India