While cleaning out a room in my parent's house recently I found a bunch of blank canvases that my Mom had. On one of them was a taped picture of this:
artist: Ron Burns
The picture had been painted for a Humane Society advertisement but the bright colors and cute face caught my eye.
I had recently gone to a place called Sips n Strokes with some friends and was completely inspired to recreate the experience at home after finding this picture. After a few months of busy schedules I finally gathered some friends and we attempted to paint our animal friends.
I found a cat for Matthew and Jennifer and I attempted the dog. We started with the backgrounds, had a break for dinner and went back to work on the rest.
We used techniques that we learned at our past visit to Sips n Strokes.
And before long we had some pretty neat looking paintings.
While the original was really cute, I couldn't help but add some of my own "Duncan details" to my painting.
And I we pleased to see my work appreciated.
It was fun! We want to do it again!
