In Repose

A pastel portrait of a German Shepherd, for fiance's grandfather. We stayed with him in Washington state this fall, and he is both a lovely person and tough as nails. He asked for this after seeing some doodles I left on his whiteboard.

I'm quite happy with this; I wanted to do something heavy and old-fashioned-looking with pastels. I wanted to capture the sort of "dog and horse portrait" look you get hanging in old mansions. I think this came out pretty close to what I had in my head when I started, and it was a lot of fun to work on. :3 

Portfolio oil pastels, with a smidge of Faber Castell pencils and some black ink pen. 

Love yas!