I took a half hour today and just took some black and white images of my dogs. After a few minutes, they warmed to the idea of being posed for pictures. Rogin especially seemed to actually enjoy being posed. Aidan was taking a nap, but maybe I’ll get him in here soon. So for the time being, I used a portrait of Aidan on the end table to get him in the shot. ;)
Rogin hurt himself somehow. I think it may have been when he was trying to jump up on the bed. It could have been that Aidan tried to run him over with his baby walker. It may have even been when he was playing with Dugal. I wish I knew. But here he is now, in his cast. No bones broken according to the x-rays that the vet took but the area around his ankle joint is inflamed. We are hoping that it is not a torn ligament. For the next two weeks he’s gonna be in a perpetual “time out” while he keeps the weight off of it and gets some good rest.
That’s probably the hardest thing for an active puppy to do. Stay quiet and lay around when he wants to be running and jumping. I may have to make him a lap dog during the next few weeks as I can’t bear to leave him in his kennel for such long periods of time.
Well, hopefully I’ll be able to get back to more dog drawings now that we have Rogin’s leg on the mend.
When I took the photograph for this digital, I used the flash and their eyes just shone really bright. I thought I’d leave it as in a sense it shows the wilder side of a dog. So when I painted this, I left it a bit loose and free flowing, more wild.
Becca has off today so I think she wants me off the computer. 
He wasn’t really laughing. It was more of a yawn, but after I took the picture, it looked more like a laugh. It fits his personality so I went with it. Now what do dogs laugh about I wonder?
Rogin was trying to get the camera while I was taking this picture. But after messing with the photograph a little, I enjoyed the expression on his face and decided to go with it. I intentionally drew this one a little rough for the play on words with ruff. Not to be confused with buff. ”Rogin in the buff” is pretty much all the time. I mean other than fur, dogs don’t wear clothes unless you have a wife like mine around Halloween or something.
Yesterday, I had my cousin and her family over. I hadn’t seen her in probably 14 years or so. She has three kids now and her husband and has lost over one hundred pounds. It’s quite an accomplishment from the pictures she showed me. Anyway, I wanted to take out my dog Dugal before she got here, but I didn’t get the chance. Well, do you know how you know that you’ve been greeted by a cocker spaniel?
Yep. Pee. All over her pants down her leg. Dugal couldn’t just pee on a shoe, no… he had to jump and squirt at the same time. It takes talent to be a cocker spaniel.
” Hi, I know I haven’t seen you in fourteen years, so here let me let my dog pee on you.” All was good though. We laughed about it. Her kids played some Halo and we got a chance to talk a little while she held Aidan (who happened to have one of those mysterious poops that you can’t see from looking at his diaper and the whole while, I kept thinking “wow, he’s really gassy today!”)
I guess it could have been one of the rawhides he got for Christmas, but more than likely it was the wrapping paper that he traditionally rips into shreds on Christmas morning. I happened to catch him with this silly expression on his face and it was clear that he was enjoying Christmas. I hope you had a great Christmas as well. Maybe someone caught you chewing something on camera too? ;)
Merry Christmas to all! It’s Day three of my 100 days of my dogs. Rogin is going to be enjoying the Christmas tradition that Dugal started a few years ago. Shredding Christmas paper. It can become quite a mess around here on Christmas morning. Aidan will be enjoying his first Christmas too today.
So a very very Merry Christmas to everyone and yay for first Christmases too!
Number two in my series of dog images. The challenge in the future with these painting/photographs is that I will have to take a good image each day with my camera as well as do the artwork on it. This is actually an older image that I had on my hard drive that I always liked but I didn’t really know what to do with it. Over the next 98 days I forsee a lot of photographs being taken of my dogs to find a good one in the bunch to work with.
I posted a digital painting/photograph combination I did earlier today as the first in my dog series. Kimberly stopped by to comment, so I asked her to send me a pic of her dogs to try this with. She did, and here is the result. It was funny though that in the original image there was a cell phone that the larger dog is laying on.
I am doing these images over top of an image digitally (using different layers) and working with the image by hand using a wacom tablet. Still the result usually looks pretty good for a quick render.
