September 17, 2008

White Dog came back from the groomer beautiful but sleepy. She wanted to nap; I wanted her to model for some parts of my current painting. White Dog flat out refused to bare her teeth and look threatening (The somewhat political piece is called My Sister's Keeper...or Keep Away?). She kindly consented to lie next to me so that I could pull her lips back every so often to study the size and arrangement of her "fangs." "Stop complaining," I said as she sighed for the hundredth time. "This is far better than being ignored while I worked on the virtual Mayan village for months." White Dog responded by crawling under the chair and looking out so that I could only see her big dark eyes and nose...which were exactly what I needed to model for another part of the work!