You have got to be kidding me!
Oil on Gessoed Hardboard (Masonite)
6″ high x 6″ wide
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Meet my dog. His name is Ruffo and he’s a 15 years old German bracco. Pretty much like a pointer but black solid in color with a white diamond on the chest. He was born in Venezuela, South America and came with us on an airplane in 1999 when we moved to the US along with his mother (we certainly looked funny at the airport! 2 kids, 2 adults and 2 huge dog cages! lol!) He’s a good, really good dog; a dog who still thinks is a puppy! but although he likes to play and do all the funny things he does, he gets tired very quickly and on my first ever dog painting I captured his personality, which is really strong!
The day I captured this painting was a warm day a couple of weeks ago. We still had a nice fairly warm weather and I took him out for a long walk. I wanted to take picture references for my work and as I’m walking out of my garage with him I saw the perfect scene! so I took my camera out to try and take some pictures of him in the drive way. He gets reeeeeally exited whenever we got out for a walk, he loves that! and he was so exited that it took me a while to make him stay long enough to take some good pictures! lol!
I gave him the command to sit still so I could take some descent pictures and as I’m shooting he’s looking at me like “are you kidding me? with this gorgeous day you want me to sit here? lets go!” kind of look, very typical of him.
So here it is, my first ever dog oil painting of my dear beloved old puppy, Ruffo… Enjoy =]
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2 Comments
This is fantastic. Really great image. Not your typical pet painting. Wonderful backstory and a great name!
November 13, 2007
Thank you Cooper!
Certainly not the typical pet painting, but alas, he’s not the typical pet either =]
MV./
November 6, 2007