This painting is the first in a new series ‘dog in action’ paintings I hope to do over the summer.  I wanted to get the feeling of a sunny day on the beach and the sheer joy of running! I wanted a blast of colour with the light coming from behind him.

This was done on paper in acrylics. Here’s a close up detail.

This is a digital painting I created for an article. The brief was painting pets and these two show how our pets form family relationships, not just with us, but also with each other. German Shepherds are very loyal and protective dogs and Bonnie here is looking after little Fred.

If you’d like to see how it was painted look out for in next month’s Corel Painter magazine (issue 34)
With many thanks to Mary who let me use her beautiful animals as models for this piece!

I have three new dog limited edition prints, a new German Shepherd print Max Sleeping

A new Golden Retriever print Life’s A Beach

and a new Bullmastiff print Beau

All of them can be found on The Painted Dog.