The beautiful "trained dog"

This portrait is of a good friend's dog, Dovekie. With some mix of a Golden Retriever and a Wire Haired Pointing Griffon. Look them up and you will find them stunning! This one was a little harder because I put him in a laying down position, which can be hard to get the legs in the right position, and make sure it does not look abnormal! The background was a good choice to pop Dovekie out, not too exciting, but just  right. Doing him was very fun, he has great hair and the double brush was awesome! The lighting was fun to ad, and he has wavy hair, which gives a great affect. The little blue spots gave it a little perk because just green gave it a bla feeling.

Some of you may be wondering why the title is "trained dog". This is because the first animal I drew for this business was Dovekie's buddie, Fern. Also our great friend's dog. They had all of their animals done, including their cat's, except for Dovekie. And in about a week, Dovekie was going to go thru big time training with a trainer a few hours away. Who I met myself! She is great, and she trained him perfectly. We said we would paint the picture of the trained Dovekie, after he came back from his training!