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| These watercolor pet portraits are my first sketches painted from photos that Veronique had taken of her pets. At that time, "Sir Macho", the parson Jack Russell terrier had a friend whose name was: "Monsieur the Cat". As they grew up together, they weren't allowed to lead a cat-and-dog life. Veronique had decided that everyone would love each other in her house: the dog had to love the cat and the cat had to be kind with the parakeets, that were flying freely in the kitchen. | ||
 | It was my first professional photo reporting for a dog portrait. I still had far to go to learn the art of dog portrait photography. I started out wasting a lot of film because "Sir Macho", was only 18 months old and was running all over the place. So on the first roll of film, I had either a head or a tail, or even sometimes a white ghost crossing the photo. In order to take a good snapshot, Veronique had to help me by holding her dog's tail firmly to immobilize him. | |
| According to the legend, at the beginning of the XXth century, the Baron de Rothschild brought a pair of parson Jack russell terriers to France as his pets. When they had puppies, the Baron de Rothschild gave them to their very close friends, Prince and Princess of the Gotha and to other Kings of petrol. The puppies had puppies and the parson Jack Russell family grew wider and wider in the wealthiest European world. I know a few real Princess who actually have parson Jack Russell terrier as pet dogs, but all the Jack Russell terriers in Europe do not live in the Gotha's palaces. It is, nevertheless, rather elegant among certain circles to own a Jack... ....and often very snobbish everywhere else...  This explaining that ... I had more luck finding art lovers in promoting my parson Jack Russell portraits in the aristocrat world than with poodles or alsatian dogs. If you know what I mean.... The next dog portrait on commission resulted directly from one of these very "ouah-ouah"* dinners. *translation : "ouah-ouah" ... is the sound made by a French dog barking... "ouah-ouah" ... is the word very young French kids use to designate a dog. "ouah-ouah" ... curiously, in high society, could mean "toilets" (water-closets.. wa-wa ) "ouah-ouah" ... means also elegant, chic, smart Curious isn't it ... tell me, noble stranger, how German, Brazilian, Chinese or English dogs bark? I will write a dictionary at the bottom of this page give me your answers in my mail box by clicking here |
| to see one of his favorite dog portrait>>>>>> |  |
| The dog barking international dictionary These answers have been given by my friends artists from around the world .. Thanks to them | ||
| USA | dogs in American comics typically say "woof!" or "arf!" though some actually say "bark!" :-) | Mike |
| Japan | dogs in Japanese comics, dogs say "Wan Wan!"........ and roosters go "Kokeko-ko!" ;-) | Rieko |
| Brazil | dogs in Brazilian portuguese comics do "au, au, au" even when litle childrens are learning to talk, we say then that dogs are "auau" We use "uolf-uolf" for a very slowly bark | Luno |
| Italy | dogs in Italian comics barks as "bau bau", | rapolina. |
| Malaysia | In Chinese comics, dogs say "Wang Wang" or "Ou Ou" or "Wou Wou" Roosters go "Kok Kok Kay" Cats go "Mi Mi" or "Miao Miao" Human beings say "Ni Hao Ma?" LOL > | Marvin Chew |
| Sweden | In Swedish comics, the dogs say "Vov Vov", so children call them "vovvar" or "vovve" | Sarad |
| NL | In Flemish comics, dear Cyrille it's WOEF WOEF (pronounce WOUF).... | Gilberte |
| Germany | In German comics, it's "Wau wau" (pronounced like "vow" in English), or "Wuff!" (like "voof") and the children's name for a dog is a "Wauwau". A cat says "Miau", a rooster "Kickeriki!". And a sheep says "MŠh!", not "bah" like in English. Incidentally, German has a word for the sound a cat makes when it's angry (English people call it "hissing"): it's "fauchen"- and it sounds just like what the cat does! | Amo |
| Russia | in Russian comics, dogs don't bark, they bite ;-) | Antov |
| Russia | ok, that«s not true, they bark, too and in Russian is sounds like "gav-gav" or, in kids version, "av-av". I can«t use cyrillic here to be more precise with how it looks on paper hope that helps all the best Alyona | Alyona |
| USA | it depends on what part of America the hound is from!! | Dana |
| Iraq | The dogs barks but the caravan goes by | Iznogood |
Corea | In Corea, we are very fond of hot dogs Dogs usually lie. They used to bark" Kaï Kaï" that means "cooked cooked" | Sunday |
| Roumania | Romanian dogs say "hum-hum" | Jessica |