Madison

Madison Acrylic on Board  8"x8"

I had an interesting challenge painting Madison.  Not only was he a black dog so definition can be difficult but the photo I obtained of him he was sitting on a plastic tarp with all sorts of light reflecting and bouncing off it. And the tarp was also a neutral color.  I tried to make the tarp more on the red/violet side of blue and Madison himself more on the blue/green side.So, there is a definite cool vs warm feel here.  A little different angle of the puppy looking up at the viewer.  Dogs are so expressive.