The Big One

Many months ago, a long time client and friend sent me a huge boxer dog statue asking me to paint it up colorfully. The only instructions I was given:

1. Do your thing

2. Noshopnk

3. Take your time

This is by far the biggest statue I've painted yet. For reference, here's the Intern next to it….

So I put the 18in tall statue in the studio, out of view of the Intern (or he would want to play with it) waiting for two things to happen. I needed to have a good chunk of time available to work on it, alone, so it wasn't exposed on the painting table to curious children. And I needed to have an idea of how I wanted it to look. This artistic vision for lack of a better word is not always how the end result looks. But it's a starting point. My paintings usually have what I like to call my Bob Ross moment. If you've ever watched Bob Ross, he always decides at some point in the middle of a beautiful landscape to add a barn or a fence, etc. Every time I watched as a kid I would stress out like, no! You're going to mess it up. Only to have him finish the piece and I would sigh in relief touche, Bob. You clearly knew what you were doing. Now when I paint, I always have a moment where I think I might have messed up or I suddenly pivot and see exactly what I need to do.

So finally after the holidays, and after sitting primed in a aqua blue for a good month, I “saw” the boxer I wanted to paint.

I wanted a look of a copper fawn boxer fading into rainbow with a senior sugar frost mask.

I would love to hear what you think of the end result. Also, if you're interested in me painting up a statue like this for you (even a non boxer dog) just reach out here, or through the contact page in our shop www.5149andahalfart.com

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