Tag Archives: dogs

04/8/11

Dog Park I

This is a watercolor and ink on paper painting of puggles* and other dogs romping around at the dog park. I’m going to be selling ACEO cards on eBay soon and this will be one of the paintings offered for sale there. In fact, ACEO cards are original artwork or prints and their size is uniformly 2.5″ x 3.5″. Yes, they are tiny, and sold and collected like baseball cards, or any other collectible. Since they are so small, I can take a painting like this, break it up into two cards and sell each as a print. More information on them coming soon.

*My dog is a puggle. A puggle is a mix of a pug and a beagle, and they are adorable.

01/30/11

A Puggle Fractal

Using a new fractal program and changing one of my first images, I discovered it reminded me of my dog. So this is Puppy Fractal. (My dog is no longer a puppy but she has a face that retains that youthful dog appearance and she could pass for a puppy.)

The fractal program for the Mac is called Oxidize. There are very few of them, and this program makes “flame” fractals, so I mention it in case someone else is looking for something for their Mac. There are a ton of programs for Windows, but lots of artists do not use PCs, but instead use Macs. Macs are traditionally more friendly to artists — at least usually. Oxidize is not easy to use and it has a daunting learning curve and terrible documentation.