Sky.
Commissioned portrait of a Labrador/Rottweiler cross called Sky. Staedtler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils on Strathmore Heavyweight Drawing paper, A3. This one I will admit was not easy - I originally tried it in colour, with pastel pencils, as the dog's coat was a very unique golden honey colour. But try as I might it just never looked right, always looked 'false' and unrealistic. So, as the customer had explicitly stated that they didn't mind how I did it, I decided it might be safer to revert to graphite and remove that particular difficulty. All went well until I was approaching completion and stepped back for a good long look....and my wife remarked that the muzzle was too long and he looked more like a Whippet. I couldn't deny it, and had to make some fairly major proportional changes to his face, but the results were much more satisfying and the customer was very pleased, so....all's well that ends well!
About the Artist
Tim Brown
Self taught artist specialising in portraits, mostly with various forms of pencil but particularly in graphite. Tim hails from Ipswich in the rural South East of England, and still lives nearby, out in the pleasant rolling hills of "Constable Country".
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