Drawing: Dexter

I always think about Kandinsky and his musing on the need for a spiritual connection to your subject when I do a puppy portrait. Dogs are hard for me. Cats, horses, and people seem to flow out of the charcoal or emerge out of the canvas like they were there just waiting all along. Dogs, I have to think about. I have to plan. I have to fuss and tweak. So that makes it all the more rewarding when one turns out well.