Beautiful Oops

Bull Terrier

Watercolor/ pen

For this assignment I was given a piece of paper that had an ink splotch on it and had to incorporate it into a drawing or painting. It took me a very long time to see something with this ink splotch. After an hour of staring at it I finally saw an eye and a nose that were connected. My first thought was a cheetah but the shape wasn't right. My second thought was a dog. I'm not sure why I picked a bull terrier but I was drawn to the particular dog.

I used only watercolor and pen for this project. The dog was shaded using a micron pen and the diamond behind it is what I used the watercolor for.

I chose to do the stippling method on the dog because I wanted it to have value but I didn't want to use pencil because I don't like the way that looks. I wasn't originally going to add the diamond but once I was done with the dog I decided that the piece looked too empty. I think it made it look a little better and bring more attention to the dog