Tribute to Kosmo, sweet silky terrier, 1998-2016

This is the final version of a digital painting of sweet Kosmo, a snowbird pup who lived part time in Florida and part time in Virginia. The painting was a gift from Jacki to partner Glenn, who is still aching over the relatively new absence of his much beloved dog. Kozzy had a short tower with a bell that she used to signal w her humans when she wanted something- time to go for a walk, where's my food?, it's five o'clock (five rings). Kozzy was quite the communicator- she would bring her comb to Glenn when she wanted to be groomed, and she'd sing to "Who Let the Dogs Out" during football games. Kosmo is dearly missed. (Glenn wrote me- "I opened up my Valentines gift and it brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful job- thank you!" )

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Original iPad painting by Seattle dog artist, Nancy Schutt.

Free Demo at Daniel Smith Artist's Supplies, Sunday July 22- Seattle, WA

The demo at Daniel Smith is called "Pet Portrait Painting", but I will as much time talking about how to start from zero and build a composition, and how color interactions create the pulse of the painting, and make it alive. I will use color squares to demonstrate how colors move forward and backwards in a painting and create an illusion of movement and depth, simply by their interaction with each other. Here are the sample color squares I created and will use. Can you see how in each image, the color squares on the left create the illusion of each color moving backwards in the painting, like looking down a funnel, and each color square on the right side moves forward, like a pyramid building upwards?

This color theory is not my invention, it belongs to Joseph Albers. I was lucky enough to be studio mates at my first studio in Seattle in Fremont with Charles Emerson, who was a student of Albers. Charles kindly shared this knowledge with all of us occupying the Red Door Tavern upstairs studios before the building was moved to make room for Pete's Coffee.