Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Watercolor - Gesture

This serves both as my "Illustration Friday" and "Watercolor Wednesdays" piece. The Illustration Friday word is "gesture", hence.......
"Watercolor Wednesday's" topic is "Baby's First....." Well, if you've followed my blog you know that I'll find any excuse to put some sort of animal in the piece, so I decided that the dog can be baby's first guardian angel. I purposely positioned the baby's swirl hair over the puppy serve as puppy's halo. If you look super close, you'll see her dog tag has little wings drawn on it, designating her very important job. Here's a closeup:


Anyway, I really dont know if the puppy succeeds at keeping the stupid baby from getting attacked by the blender. I will leave that up to your imagination :) hehehe You tell me what you think happens!!!!!!

Tiff
PS, dog was modeled after my dog Gracie, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, who is actually a pretty cruelly indifferent dog. I once took her to Barton Springs to play water fetch with her. I decided to test and see what she would do if I pretended to drown. As I "drowned" she picked up her ball and took it to my husband instead. She didn't even think twice!!

16 comments:

Redeker said...

very adorable how the dog rescues the baby!! lovely blog!!

L Rossi said...

:) Cool idea with the halo!
A lovely painting as always - and the violin below is exquisite!
L

RoRy said...

Funny and lovely! Love ur style!

Samuel Araújo said...

I really liked this illustration. :D

Leigh said...

Very sweet! I'm trying to get back into watercolour so seeing yours makes me excited to keep at it.

Unknown said...

very nice!

Mauricio Abril said...

Love this!

Shierly Po said...

Wow I love it! Love the idea, love the dog, and love the baby! :D

Maaike van den Akker said...

Too cute!

Roberta Baird said...

Cute!!

tiffannysketchbook said...

hey thanks everyone :D

EmersonArts said...

Se eu entendi bem, me parece que o cachorrinho está tentando salvar a criança de m futuro acidente. Legal!

If I understand, it seems that the puppy is trying to save the child of m future accident. Cool!

Sharon Wagner said...

Love the story. I think it has a happy ending.

Ted Blackman said...

I like the way you incorporated the lettering into the piece, it looks great.
Next time you're drowning make sure you tie a beef steak to your head first. Gracie will help you then.

Stephan said...

Beautiful work! The little dog looks too cute :D

Sjan Weijers said...

oooh she's so cute!!!