Detail of Do You Wanna Play?
This is
act II of a three act "play" for my artwork: Do You Wanna Play?
Featuring our dog, Bridge.
Frank
had put together four wrap around 6 x 6 inch canvases, so's I could
show a bit of the motion that “is” Bridge. I captured Bridge
playing with his current favorite “toy”.....an old chewed up
blue plastic coffee can. He'll spend minutes....minutes!! I
say!.....playing with this toy. And then he'll get distracted by
birds flying overhead to give chase, and then break off barking at
them to pace a passing car......inside a field fence row.
In the
second canvas frame, I've captured Bridge tossing up and catching his
toy. In composing these square canvases, I wanted to used the
abstracted and slightly blurred backgrounds as a foil for his lovely
white fur on chest and underbelly and tail. While using background
bieges and tans to show the bend of his back and the exuberance of
his jumping forelegs. To pre-plan this I painted the background FIRST,
to see just where I wanted all the lights and darks to best show his
outline.
I then
went onto the next square. In this one I had caught Bridge in a
favorite pose.....the “do you wanna play?” bow. Just as in the
previous canvas I painted in the background to make sure that I was
able to highlight all the different outlines that said: “Play bow”.
Here he is in progress......
Next
time around I'll finish up this “Do You Wanna Play?” artwork.
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