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Today’s painting came from deep in my reference photo stash. I have drawers crammed full of photos, several shoeboxes equally packed, and probably well over 2000 additional shots stored on my computer. It’s a sort of sickness, I think, collecting images that one day might translate into a painting or two. And it’s starting to be a little daunting – I never fail to get entirely distracted when hunting for something particular. But that’s another story altogether……

So today’s painting came from deep in my reference photo stash. This is a tri colored and merled cattle dog, a pup several years back when my Finnigan was brand new, too. For those of you unfamiliar with merled dogs, they have a dense double layers of fur: a shorter coat of dark black or red brown, with a longer sparser overcoat of white. The two colors together create a luminous silvery blue (“blue merle”) or a glowing pink (“red merle”).

Today’s pup has a lopsided mask and tan points anchoring some juicy brushwork. The surface of this painting is gooey, too, full of rich gobs of paint, which play a nice counterpoint to the sleekness of her fur.

“Cattle Dog Pup Study (Moxie), 4x6, dog portrait in acrylic on canvasboard. Moxie belongs to a friend of mine, and this little painting is headed to her home. Enjoy it, Sharon!

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

Kimberly Kelly Santini
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  1. Jackie7:35 AM

    What a beautiful pup! Those eyes...I imagine you captured them perfectly. It's hard not to melt when you look at her.

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  2. Kimberly Kelly Santini10:07 PM

    Actually, those eyes bail her out of trouble quite regularly. ;)

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