ANIMALS
There are many stories about animals in the news. Especially the relationship between humans and animals. Some of the following pictures are ones that caught my eye and I wanted to document them.
A mixture of domestic pets, animals in the news and from books.
Story is in the captions.
Charcoal and oil bar cat.Cat sitting on red with some gold leaf and oil bar.Sitting on her red stool in the kitchenAbout to curl up. Fast asleep in a round ballBlack fluffy catResting outside.Dry point of cat looking like a rock.Dog leaping. (Dog from a Hockney.)Watercolour sketches of cat.Lying downCurled up.FROM the NEWS:
This one is of a lost then found dog called Red in Wales.
A rescued deer.An orphaned sheep.Party time for these two, with sunglasses on !This is one of many cat shelters.A homeless man and his dog.David Attenborough with a swan.Jake finds a new home.Out riding in Windsor ParkAs one.A close call. Cat hitching a ride on back of dog.Re-united.People moving their horses on Sadleworth Moor amid dense smoke. 2018.The Australian bushfires in 2019 was painful to watch. This lucky Kangaroo gets patched up.And this one.A rescued spaniel spent three days trapped underground in a water pipe. This was recorded by ‘Oxford News’ in 2018.Dolled up Pooches in this years winter coats.Dogs in cars.Crow and seagull on top of chimney pots.Four legs.The underbelly of a seagull.I bought ‘The Book of the Dog’ by Angus Hyland & Kendra Wilson. These next pictures are my versions of some of the pages. They are all drawn with colour pencil and paint.
Marie Laurencin, 1949, Portrait of a Young Boy with Dog.Gaston Saint-Pierre, 19th century, Diana the HuntressLucian Freud, 1985-6, Double Portrait.D.G. Rossetti. 1863. Woman holding a dogG.Castiglione, 18th century, Golden-Winged Hound.Alfred Stevens 19th century, Portrait of a Woman in Chinoiserie.Pierre Bonnard, 1891, Two Poddles.Not this one. Dog catching a stick in a park.G. Castiglione, 18th century, from Ten Imperial Hounds.