Australian How To Paint

‘Stalker’

This painting is of my old kelpie, ‘Stalker’. He has been gone for about ten years. The pose is typical of how he used to sit all the time. The picture is a great way to remember a great dog.

STEP ONE

From reference photographs, I do a simple pencil sketch. I tend not to detail the sketch that I am going to transfer; instead I put my detail

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