Mad Dogs & Englishmen... by Ian Finlay

Great stuff! Perfect dogs and you have captured their fun element and mannerisms. Like the contrast between the coat of the lab and the ?wolfhound in the front.

The big downside in this image is that it was taken through the glass after the painting was framed so the colours don't come through as well as I'd like. The challenge was the textures of the different coats of the dogs as well as capturing their characters as it was for some friends. you'll see my first attempt at painting dogs in oil somewhere else in this gallery. I can't tell you how challenging that was, but this was painted a couple of years earlier so I guess the memory fades, it was quite challenging and I completed two paintings, one to try to improve on the other.