Today's exercise draws on Emma Pettit's Fluid Figures class, but the model isn't the usual pretty girl: This is Little Head Fred, Emma's dog. She posted a photo of him, remarking that he was doing his impression of a kangaroo with his crazy long back legs, and I immediately remarked that he looked like one of Emma's exercises in extreme perspective, where the model's head is tiny and the rest of the body parts come out at the viewer until all you can see is two big feet at the "front" (bottom) of the picture. So I decided to use Fred as my model and make a little surprise for Emma.
I have to remember NOT to do any re-outlining with the Stabilo until I am absolutely sure I'm done painting in the background—as I put in the pillows, I kept nicking the outline of the dog and pulling a bunch of black streakies out into my paint. But otherwise, this one went pretty smoothly. I used fairly accurate colors for Fred, but tried to be painterly, and made the background colorful, as we do for these paintings.
I hope Emma likes him.
"Little Head Fred"—acrylics, charcoal, Stabilo, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.
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