This commission has taken me literally months to complete, mainly due to April being a complete disaster with my daughter's illness. Once we had got over that, I had lost all motivation and it was difficult to get back in the swing of things as far as painting was concerned.
I was also not happy with the composition of this piece - the dog's head peering through the lilies is a picture of the same dog when it was a puppy, at the client's request. It is not something I would have ever chosen to do myself. I also had about 6 photographs to work from in order to get the exact composition wanted by the client, so it was quite a task!
However, it finally got finished this week and the client is very happy with it, which is all I ask for really. This was painted in watercolour on paper.
Next up - a pair of pugs in pencil on paper! Looking forward to that one. Funny how this year it is all about dogs whereas last year it was all about bears...
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