For the last 6 months or so I’ve been using pretty much the same 5 tubes of paint, give or take a daub here and there of something different. This is completely opposite the manner in which I used to work, with 30 different pots of paint scattered across my taboret. Classes and conversations with a number of other artists convinced me to pare things down, and get to know some of the old standby’s a little better.

I’m not sure whey, but today I felt the need to switch up my palette, and swapped my regular blue and red for two new ones. I immediately felt a little outside my comfort zone – I didn’t realize how much I had taken my old friends Pthalo Blue and Cadmium Red for granted. But I thought Prussian Blue would give me an inkier edge to the black markings on today’s border collie, and it did.


“Border Collie Study,” 4x6, acrylic dog portrait on canvasboard, $60. Please send all inquiries to ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com .

SOLD.

Thanks, as always, for looking.
And for sharing these dog paintings with your friends and family!
Kim

Kimberly Kelly Santini
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