Dog Portraits, Harry

I think I've finally finished Harry's dog portrait. I will just need to stare at it for a few days to do any 'tweeking' and 'tinkering'


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Dog Portraits, Harry

Bit more progress to show on Harry's dog portrait. I've continued working on his face and have added the darker shades now to give a better colour as Harry was looking a little pale for a while. I will need to add more high and lowlights but that's the best bit when everything starts to look more realistic.
There are a couple of extra stages shown in the slideshow below so you can see how much difference the darker colours have made.



Anyway, Willow is beiing very annoying and obviously wants to go for a walk so I'm going to dig out my wellies and venture out into the grey dismal gloom. Yuk!

Also here is our photo from work, we had a big photo taken of all the people that worked there but no dogs were allowed, so us being devious little creatures managed to round up the photographer to take a little shot of some of the dogs who go to work every day. I would say there are probably another 8 - 10 dogs who turn up regularly but these 3 are very often together and all get along very well.

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Dog Portraits, Harry

A bit more progress on this dog portrait. Still a long way to go though! Harry is in such a unique pose too.

And this is where we were working near today. This is a monument for Northern United coal pit. The last coal was brought to the surface on Christmas Eve 1965. The Forest of Dean was a large coal producing area in years gone by. The entire area is covered with old mine shafts and the locals, known as foresters can become freeminers, a tradition which exists to this day whereby a miner had to work in a pit for a year and a day and then he was allowed to open and mine his own pit.

The monument shows miners going down in the shaft to work

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Dog Portraits, Harry

Harry's dog portrait is still slowly making progress, here you can see the difference after highlights have been added to give the fur some gloss and sheen.

And just so those last few rays of sunshine are not forgotten, this was yesterday in the woods at the back of the house. In complete contrast it is absolutely pouring down today so everything looks grey, nevertheless, Willow, Zac and myself have already completed a circuit of the wood. We are all soaked to the bone but at least my doggies are happy!

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Dog Portraits, Harry

This is the start of the beautiful golden retriever, Harry. It would seem Harry is very laid back and I assume this is one of his favourite postitions, asleep on the stairs. Doesn't he look lovely! I've finally managed to get enough done on this portrait to warrant an update, poor Harry did have just one closed eye and a bit of surrounding fur for a while so at long last he's on the books!

As for Pepper, he just has the inside of his ear to go but I have been struggling to get a good photo of it, by the time I get home in the evenings the daylight has all but gone and even with the wonder of daylight bulbs, which prove brilliant to work with, they are not really able to light a portrait evenly all over to take a photo. I'm hoping to finish the ear today and will get a photo shoot in place to update a bit later, then it will be the framing bit, ta da!

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