Irene Gallo is Tor's Art Director. She's been at IMC every year and gives a rip-roarin' lecture on the business of art. Not being an artist per se, she often has a fresh perspective of the appreciative audience and sees something in a painting that a viewer will notice in the overall impression that sometimes artists miss. Her contributions to the critiques at IMC are invaluable for that very reason. Irene is also a very fine photographer and often shares them on Facebook. This photo of her dog was posted in January and I was so taken with the beauty of his head shape and the intelligent nobility of his gaze that I knew I had to draw him. He's a Scottish deer hound but Irene describes him as "A greyhound in a Wookie suit."
Beautiful sketch!! Love his eyes!!
ReplyDeleteand you have captured the haunting feeling of the deerhound perfectly! xx
ReplyDeleteGosh! What a beautiful sketch! I could almost get tangled up within that fur!
ReplyDeleteHe's awesome!! I thought he was a Saluki at first. Just terrific!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you to each of you for your comments.
ReplyDeleteHe's lovely, I can't help picturing deer hounds beside a medieval hearth in a great hall with mead and wild boar and flickering torchlight...
ReplyDeleteGreat drawing...