Final Project
It took approximately 1 viewing of "Best In Show" to paint Darby. Here he is! Apparently there has been some trouble when I try to upload images from my computer, but I'm hoping this one worked. Anyways, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The canvas is 8x10 inches, which is bigger than I normally use, so I feel like I could get a pretty high level of detail. The lines in the background are kinda wonky, but I feel like that focuses more attention on the dog. I was sort of taking a page from my absolute favorite contemporary artist, Kehinde Wiley, who does large scale portraits with backgrounds that look like fancy wallpapers. I don't really have the skill or time to get so elaborate, but he's definitely one of my biggest artistic inspirations. Wiley's portrait of Obama I also wrote a couple words about Darby's personality I would like to hang up next to his portrait: " Some dogs fall all over their humans. Barking, jumping, running arou...