Drawing Animals

I did many drawings of my beautiful dog Lucy.  She is a cross between a Breton Spaniel and an English Spaniel.  She would only stay in the same position for a few minutes and always with her eyes open looking at me and wondering why I was looking at her.

 

Fish On a Plate

I am very happy with the results of this painting.  It looks better on paper and I think that I was able to capture the true image of the fish.  I did buy the fish and then take a photograph of it as I wanted to paint it looking down on it.  I would have struggled without a photograph to look at.

Check and Log

The main challenge with drawing my dog was that she is very alert and constantly watching me to see what I am doing, except of course when I am not looking at her then she sleeps happily.  I found that drawing her was much like drawing anything else the more I looked the more I saw.  This course has already taught me to really look at things that go into my drawing.

I used watercolour and ink for my fish painting and I enjoyed it so much.  The black enamel dish was perfect with crayon spots and indian ink.  I also had some japanese water colour in silver that I was able to use across the fish adding to the reality of the fish.  

I plan to draw some more dogs, as I find dogs so interesting.  I go to a local dog park and I will take my sketch book next time.  I am going to also try to draw different kinds of birds.