Dog Art:
Making Your Dog Into
A Work Of Art
Four Short Cuts For The Novice Artist
In this clip we see how to set up and capture
the ideal source material for your painting.
Holidays, dining out, playing sport - these are
all things that people like to involve their dog How to take a good
in nowadays - and why not? Another area
photograph of your dog.
which is fast becoming a dog friendly zone
is art. A lot of dog lovers are succeeding in
making their mutt their muse. The rewards
are obvious, you get your very own piece
of original art featuring your very own dog.
Regardless of your artistic genius, this is
something you’ll value for a long time.
Even if you aren’t artistic in the slightest, it
doesn’t matter. There are ways for you to
create your own artistic rendering that involve
nothing more than following a step by step
process of transferring your image to the
canvas.
Once you’ve got the ideal starting point, you
The beauty of this new found love of
then decide which medium you prefer. Take
capturing our dogs on canvas (or rice
into account where (if anywhere) you wish to
paper for that matter) is that it gives us the
display your work when fi nished. Cost and
opportunity to involve our dog in yet another
skill levels will dictate to a point, so don’t
one of our own, human-centric interests.
spend lots of money on oil paints if you don’t
Especially if part of the process involves
think your artistic abilities will be put to best
capturing a decent photograph of your dog
use in that context.
as source material. Inevitably, you’ll want to
capture something with a nice background,
In this clip, we see how the head of a Mastiff
so taking your dog to his favourite woodland
type dog can be sketched by using simple
spot or fi elds is a good starting point, for both
shapes and lines. It’s amazingly simple when
of you.
you see it done step by step.
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