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Clean & Cold (IF & EDM)

Cold-wet-dog

This week’s Illustration Friday cue is CLEAN and the Every Day Matters’ challenge is COLD. I wanted to tie the two concepts together to make one picture. It worked (I think) when I remembered how cold and wet I used to get when cleaning my old dog with the hose after she’d rolled in something nasty and smelly. No matter how cold it was outside, I wasn’t bringing that stinky pooch in the house for her bath. I cleaned her with the hose and she showered me right back.

My thinking went like this: dog’s nose (cold, but not necessarily clean), floating ice cubes in bath water (clean AND cold but a waste of water to fill the tub), a towel turbanned self-portrait after a shower (clean, but not too attractive), a root beer float (cold) and an emptied glass (clean but I’d have to go out and buy ice cream…and eat it!)…and on and on until I came up with getting cold cleaning a dog.

Ink and watercolor (a bit of opaque white on the hose spray) on Arches watercolor paper.

22 replies on “Clean & Cold (IF & EDM)”

This is so good!!! I do this almost weekly, I have one dog that insists on rolling in cow stuff every time we go for hikes where cows have been.

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What a superb picture. This is a scene I am really familiar with too. Great combination of both ideas. I hae yet to do my illo Friday……
MD

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Oh how I love this! It’s exactly how bathtime for my GSD Heidi goes. She gets extra stinky even without rolling in something bad, and giving her a bath is always an adventure. I love how you’ve captured that doggie shake so well, and I love your gesture too…you know you’re going to get wet, but you’re still backing off! Excellent!

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I love this drawing and couldn’t help but laughing at it. During the recent heatwave, I sprayed down my water-hating Austrailian Shepherd to cool him off and he looked much the same as the dog in your painting. You are an accomplished artist and I can see why the lady from Kansas wanted to buy your painting – Jan

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Dog splashing you after his bath…never fails. Like they know when you least expect it. The dog will usually choose the most populated area for his attack 🙂

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