Tanner-s Butterflies

Finally, I finished all those $50 pet portraits from the sale I had in May. This is the last one, and the third in a series of whippets I did for one customer. These are the first two, for those who didn't see them:

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Now, this is the last one.

I had lots of trouble with this picture...not because it was a hard subject, but because of bad health. I kept having to stop and start with it, and I kept messing up and changing my mind...I think maybe the composition is a bit more forced than usual as a result. It took about three weeks from sketch to finish, which is about two and a half weeks longer than something like this would normally take me. BUT, I am fairly pleased with it anyway...I think it goes with the other two quite nicely.