Pastel 21"x7" on Arches Watercolor paper (yes, it's Jenny again)
A multiple experiment
* a very textured surface that did NOT take kindly to detail!
* the pose...those backlegs always trip me up...and that's where the forgery comes in!
It's all to do with those back legs! All floppy and no defined shape. Lower one bent with toes part curled coming forward and upper one just flopping behind. Not much contrast in photo and fur fogs detail PLUS Jenny's grey white coat didn't help - so I sacrificed her coat color to focus on shading.
Ultimately pleased - with result and quite proud of myself for sticking to it with those hind legs, struggling to get them right. I THINK I've achieved visual comprehension. Wouldn't life be wonderful if every creative process ALWAYS happened as perfectly as one's brain knew it should be!
The forgery? See smaller pic - then look at larger pic, top. In smaller there's a heavy (abusive) yellow mess above upper hind leg. THAT was to correct the outline, to bring it down to reflect the sinking curve of that flopped back leg. Tsk Tsk P'shop helped eliminate that in larger pic - I felt you needed to know.
Enjoy!
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