Drum roll please… here are the last pages from The Professional Dog. I finished the social media postings of this series on the very last day of 2021. How’s that for timing? Lol!!
So you can see a closer view… and read the accompanying text 👇
Thank you for following my entire process as I created The Professional Dog fine art and artist book project! The portfolio page on my website contains everything if you want to catch up.
A previous blog post showed our 2021 holiday card being mailed out. Well, I got several requests for art prints of my holiday art image so I did an art print here.
And because I thought it was a fun visual pun I put my traveling hedgehog on a travel mug. No one but me requested this mug. 🤣 I certainly don’t have any travel plans but a cup that’ll keep my coffee hot even when I get distracted in my studio might be nice. At any rate designing the mug was fun so I did it.
Here are some sketchbook pages that have happened lately.
Most evenings lately, and especially New Years Eve, have been spent reading The Annotated Arabian Nights by translator Yasmine Seale.
It’s a big book so I prop it on a throw pillow when reading. The book has many enchanting illustrations by the artist Edmund Dulac who painted in the style of Persian miniature paintings.
Consequently I’ve suddenly become aware that my entire fine arts college education focused on paintings larger than 24 inches. Much of my artistic output till now has been on physically larger scale too. Oh sure, I’ve done smaller illustrated hand bound books but fine art paintings, in my mind, were always big. Well, during the pandemic I have done paintings in much smaller sizes and have quite enjoyed sending 25 paintings to a Gallery in one box the size of a thick hardback novel. But in my mind this was a temporary adjustment due to the pandemic.
Now, however, I’m reading in the Annotated Arabian Nights about “the tradition of miniature painting” and have begun reading further about that approach to fine art. Wow!! A whole part of art history that’s new to me!! I’m thinking I’ll learn more about this history and the miniature art techniques and work smaller on purpose now – pandemic notwithstanding.
So you can see the cover of this wildly wonderful book…👇 I love the shiny gold on the cover and the print quality of the artwork inside…
January 1st 2022 I was looking through my sketchbooks and decided the page below is the mantra for now.
Come to think of it all of my sketchbooks are 3.5 x 5.5 inches small… so why am I surprised about miniature art being a “real thing”?! Plus the 40 original artworks for my book The Professional Dog are all 3.5 x 2.5 inches in size!
I guess I’ve been a miniaturist for a while now and didn’t realize it! 🤣
Anyway, Happy New Year! See you next Monday.
Happy New Year, Sue! It has been a joy to follow the professional dog series. Each one was so much fun to look at. I look forward to seeing what you create in 2022.
Happy New Year to you too Laura!! I’m glad you enjoyed my dog series- thank you SO much for your comments!! I look forward to seeing what you do this year too!! I wish you all the best! ❤
Especially love the hedgehog and your new selection of sketchbook pages. Happy new year, Sue!
Thank you so much!! Happy New Year, to you too Becky!
Congratulations for having completed this wonderful project.
Thank you so much!!!
There is so much of interest to comment on in this post–but I got totally distracted by the guy in the green jumpsuit. He’s my kind of felllow!
Lol!!!! Me too!!! Hooray for the guy in the green jumpsuit!!! 🤣 And a very Happy New Year to you Liz!!
Happy New Year to you, too, Sue!!
Thank you!!!!
You’re welcome!
I meant to add that I really like the little fella with the one floppy ear!
Awww thank you!!! ❤
You’re welcome, Sue! In a conversation with my sister-in-law yesterday, she informed me that they read The Professional Dog to their new puppy over Christmas, and he liked it very much.
Lol!!!! I love it that their new puppy likes it!!!! Thank you for telling me!!! ❤
You’re welcome! I got a big kick when my sister-in-law told me about it.
I was thinking that some of your work is smaller, and especially your sketches. 🙂 But it’s fascinating how the idea of miniatures captured your imagination and inspired you to thing of fine art in a new way. I love the final dogs. Such fun! I hope this new year continues to inspire you in new and wonderful ways!
Thank you!!! And I hope the new year inspires you too!!