Highly prized animals in simple, expressive sketches

These are little quick sketches of dogs and cats who live with me. These sketches were inspired by Carla Sonheim's "Cats in Bed" exercise in her great book, Drawing Lab, that I'm loving! It's fun doing quick sketches that have no detail and are more experimental practices.

Mixed media of Daisy, my service dog

Sketch of Daisy using pastel, ink, graphite. I liked to using lots of color - blues, pink, purple added to golden retriever colors. Plan to do more studies with stronger color, bolder negative spaces and play with composition.

Highly Prized

Playing with leaves: starting with representational sketch, moving to shapes, lines, movement.

My "Highly Prized" Subject

I'm delighted with the Sketchbook Challenge theme! It took 2 seconds for me to choose Daisy, my service dog as my highl prized subject. She's nine yrs. old and I've been telling myself to do some serious Daisyart as she ages. This challenge is my committment to express my love for this very important dog. How many ways can I sketch, paint, and collage this beautiful girl?

Yesterday I did a pencil sketch and as soon as I figure out how to get a photo of my work on flickr, I'll share it. The technical aspects of doing this are a big challenge!