August 26, 2023

NATIONAL DOG DAY and CATURDAY ART

 ~ celebrating my four wonderful grand dogs, the Smiling Sammies, Chewy and Fiona,
the little Cavalier King Charles, Xander, and the Lovable Lab, Dougie Dog ~


~ and for Caturday Art, a completely fictionalized image ~ The Boy, The Dog 


The base image is just a simple photograph of a retention pond in a nearby park, posterized and with color deepened.  I then found two separate images from other old photographs, one of my grandson and one of his dog (Dougie Dog).  Each of these photos were converted to grayscale and silhouetted, then each layered onto the image of the pond, and slightly shadowed, hoping to create the look that they were sitting by the pond, using Adobe Creative Cloud, with border and text.



21 comments:

  1. Happy Dog Day to Chewy, Fiona, Xander and Dougie! Love your artwork. It is just wonderful!

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  2. your granddogs are so sweet and beautiful and handsome, all of those and wild clapping for the art today. Just came from Hailey report and doing the happy dance, I saw you saw it too. makes me so happy

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  3. Such beautiful/handsome K9's in your family. I love Fiona's bow
    Hugs Cecilia

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  4. All very lovely granddogs. The art is beautiful.

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  5. Such handsome puppers happy international dog day from the UK xxx

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  6. How nice to see all of your doggy relatives. Plus, the artwork you created is amazing!

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  7. What beautiful grand dogs and Happy National Dog Day to all the puppy dogs and their peeps! Love the artwork!

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  8. Such special, special pups, each and every one of them!

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  9. We so loved seeing the four handsome pups!!! We hope Dougie is doing well.

    Woos - Lightning, Misty, and Timber

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  10. Such sweet pups you have in your life.

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  11. Oh, they are all so beautiful! We love yur art to celebrate this special day, too. Happy National Dog Day! XO

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  12. Happy Dog day from us poochies!! Petcretary had to work this W/E and completely forgot...Grrr! BOL! But we think its Dog day at our den every day anyways...

    That art is amazingly realistic!

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  13. Aw ~ adorable doggie photos ~

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  14. you definitely have some great looking woofies in your furmily! Love the photo that you created! Brilliant! I am partial to "Chewy" what a gorgeous woofie!!

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  15. You have wonderful grand dogs, I do, too. They are a joy.

    If you hadn't told me, I would have thought your grandson and Dougie Dog were actually there when you took the photo. You have a wonderful touch.

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  16. Lulu: "Wow, Chewy and Fiona are even fluffier than me!"
    Chaplin: "We weren't sure that was possible, but we have to agree ..."

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