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| Veronique introduced me once to a gentleman, whose hobby was to breed parson & Jack russell terriers. When he invited me to his home, I discovered the walls of his house covered with portraits of his favorite Jack Russell terriers. |
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| In may 98, when I exhibited for the second time at the Paris Country-show, I was very proud to see the owner of a famous art gallery, spend 30 minutes in front of this realistic dog portrait. The year before, he had only spent 30 seconds looking at my entire stand. His art gallery used to exhibit the greatest North American hyper-realist wildlife painters. Notice that they use oil when I use watercolor, the most difficult technique. Many artists tell me I'm crazy to choose the most difficult path. I don't change because I'm rather proud of my technique. In november, exhibiting in Compiègne, I saw a man fascinated by this parson jack russell's portrait "The Empress". Discreetly, I approached him. "Tell me how much I owe you",he said,"I'm buying it". And while we were getting friendly, he told me that this dog was the exact portrait of his brother's favourite pet dog. Therefore he wanted to offer it to him. When he told me his family name, I discovred that he was, indeed, my client's brother. Small world ! At the end, he never offered the painting to his brother, because he fell deeply in love with it before and kept it for himself. I do understand him, I am still in love with "Empress". I shall buy it back one day... when I grow up.  |
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You can see that I painted the fur in a very realistic manner, hair by hair, hilight by hilight, shadow by shadow. On this dog portrait, I tried to paint the stone step. Indeed, It looks like stone, doesn't it ? That was a good point for me. That meant that I was perhaps able to paint anything around the dog,. I had to imagine a decor more interesting than the simple reality. This idea was slowly ripening in my mind, and you will see the results soon. You must keep in mind that this dog portrait had been painted only 18 months after my very first watercolor attempt.
Yes ! you're right ! I agree it wasn't so bad for a beginner.
One day, when I have some time between two portraits on commission, I shall paint this Jack Russell terrier again but with a different background. Perhaps on the theme of music, with an old phonograph in front of her... perhaps on the theme of debate, with different dogs discussing. It could be fun too. This is just a rather basic dog portrait, when you take a look at my dog paintings on the following pages, you will understand exactly what I intend to paint.
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| Other portraits of Jack Russell terriers | ||||
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| "Macho" JRT | "Gipsy" JRT | |||
| After all these Jack Russell 's terriers, to look at my Labrador retrievers portraits |  |
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