Sophie 1st Oil Painting in progress by Brenda Wren

Really good first oil painting, she has beautiful eyes. Thanks Brenda for your kind comment on my painting.

This is coming on really well. I don't know anything about oils, but I like all the colours you are getting in the coat and the pose as well.

It's coming along nicely, Brenda, and for a first attempt in oils, it is a precursor of great paintings to come! I think you've done so very well, the tonal work is very good, especially for a first layer. The only little suggestion I would make, if you don't mind, might be for you to move the muzzle slightly so it points a bit to the right instead of being positioned straight ahead, so that the muzzle follows the gaze of the eye But other than that, I really wish my first piece in oils came close to this!

Seok you are so clever, you have picked up exactly what is wrong with the eyes/nose! The photo I am working from is not good and I cannot find any true colour in the eyes (or direction where they are looking exactly). In the photo Sophie is slightly angled to the right and again, with the highlight/grey on the snout, the nostrils are indistinct. Thank you so much and please keep the suggestions coming. Thank you Carole and Thea for your kind remarks too. I don't know whether I am enjoying this exercise or not, being basically 'lazy' and acrylics and watercolour are much easier to use! Brenda.

great work :0)

Super stuff Brenda, what a talented dog portrait artist you are!