Beach rock painting.

There is no doubt about it, these beach rocks make for an excellent fantastic SpotArt surface. I now have about a dozen beach rocks piled in a corner of my room and this morning I decided it was time to use at least one of them up. A friend had asked that I do a portrait of her and her man’s two dogs, so with Spot flopped out and snoring on the kitchen floor, the day overcast and damp, I thought now would be a good time to get going on the ‘commission’.

I went to her Facebook albums and found a couple of pictures which I thought I could work from, saved them to my pictures then printed them out. The one dog is just a mass of hair while the other one is black with a white chest. Almost impossible to paint with any kind of definition.

I first sketched the dogs on the rock in pencil. Satisfied with the outcome I then outlined the characters in India ink – much like doing a tattoo. I figured out what paints I would need the blopped them out on to the easel. I then went to My Music on the computer, clicked on Bob Dylan and began to paint. Half an hour later I was finished.

I let the masterpiece dry for twenty minutes (acrylic) then took it outside and sprayed it with polyurethane. This coating adds at least $50.00 to $150.00 to its value, depending on how gullible the buyer is. Another half an hour and it was dry and ready to package.

Tomorrow I think I will paint an action scene on a beach rock. Maybe our Governor General dining out in Inuvik.