Oil on museum quality, archival ampersand gessobord™ panel - 8” x 10”Another small study of Izzie, the Pembrook Welsh Corgi. Dear Izzie was involved in a altercation with a neighborhood brute and came out on the short end. Plastic surgery was required to restore her nose to its original beauty. Like Violetta in La Traviata, she will always have this portrait to reflect on her past glory, although I am told her schnoz has healed nicely.
Oil on museum quality, archival ampersand gessobord™ panel - 12” x 16”
After yesterday's "Gimlet," with all its tediousness, today I allowed myself to splash around and play with this portrait of Izzie, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. I eschewed the blending brush in favor of a loaded bristle, pushing color into whites and generally laying it down in a Manet-like flatness. I am honing in on a more finished portrait of her for the future and used this to reacquaint myself with the breed. I had a Corgi myself, many years ago, named Pippin (no surprise). He, too, would sit like this; his feet splayed comically out behind him.
