The next stop for the tour is the Hyde Park Art Center at 5020 South Cornell Avenue, in Chicago IL. It will be displayed there from July 14-17. It’s like a concert tour but with sketchbooks.
This is basically the preliminary sketch for what became my painting “Lilly Mesmerized”, which currently hangs in an exhibit at a public library in one of Pittsburgh’s lovely suburbs.
This was done in about an hour from a photo I shot (and boy do I have a lot of photos of her). That's the tough part about composing a picture of pets, they just move so darn fast and the lighting being less than good inside, and me being not a big fan of using flash - it just adds up to a pile of not real good reference. But this one was good. Too good to pass on doing a painting of.
I do of course sketch her from life sometimes. Most of those time are when she’s sleeping, curled up in the shape of a big hairy apostrophe. Here are some of those sketches:
Click here to read local press coverage of the exhibit!
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