Sunday Sketching: A Commission

A fellow yoga student has asked me to paint portraits of her dogs. It’s to be a Christmas gift for her husband. This week I worked out the preliminary drawings. I haven’t had the privilege of meeting my subjects, so I am working exclusively from some photographs.

Here is Daisy:

Daisy’s canine sibling, Reggie:

It was pretty fun making the sketches and I’m almost happy with the results. There will be a few tweaks when I do the final line drawings that will get transferred to the watercolor paper.