“Nine Blue Dogs” 120cm by 100cm, oil on acryl and canvas – a painting inspired by the Pharaohs & our Labrador Buddy

The background of this painting is highly structured Acryl (unlike many of my other paintings I used only little sand or pigments), the dogs are in oil. Each dog differs slightly from the other, yet they all are very similar; I’ve used a paper template and some spraypaint to create and position the initial outlines. I developed this template technique in 2013, and it allows the creation of shapes in exactly the right position very quickly, yet as I soon discovered the risk is that the painting may look sterile and as if it came off a printing press. So the placement of the template in a deliberately deviating position and the final step of painting by hand with a rough brush is key to make the motives come alive.

A bright painting, with strong contrasts between the pale background and the dark blue of the animals. Ancient Egypt is  mostly reflected by the shapes, not the colors.

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