
This picture is from an idea I first tried when I was in art college. It is hard to admit that something useful came out of painting school. The picture came out much better this time, party because I managed to fit all the dogs in the picture. Incidentally it is five versions of my one dog. I don’t have five dogs.
On the meaning: I actually saw my dog gulp down a piece of pizza, at least I assume it was pizza but it could have been some other food flattened under a car wheel in the parking lot. My dog used to be more active but has since hurt her back, she is in some pain when we walk and she drools. I look back on her active phase with nostalgia now even if at the time, I wondered how I got mixed up with this species.
On the painting itself I am happy with the different progressions of light, and the way I painted certain lights in the sky, especially in the cleft of the two piles of rocks. I have another painting coming up with more work on the sky and I think this may be the way to go for a while.
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