Frustrations!

Well, I've spent the last week working steadily on a fairly large painting of my two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Gus and Hanna. (Gus passed away last August.) It's a 22x28" Convexo canvas. I paint for several hours, and if I haven't already been wiping off my work every couple of hours, I end up wiping it all off at the end of the day. I just can't seem to get it the way I want to, and therefore I have no photos of my work today. Instead, I am posting a picture of Gus and Hanna taken in 1998. Gus was 3 and Hanna was only a couple of months old. Gus adored his half-sister from the very beginning. And Hanna always stuck close to him. He was her Best Buddy. This is one of my favorite photos in the whole wide world! And they are the inspiration for most of my art. It's their sweetness, noble character, and loving, beautiful souls that I try to capture in every animal I paint.