Description:
Close up, stylized view of the undulating coat of a dog’s fur. Six pantone-like boxes ranging in different shades of golden to brown are set at the top of the image. One of twenty prints in the portfolio, “Traces,” inspired by the poem of the same title by Annie G. Rogers.
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Artist's statement:
“The first section of the poem is called “paint by numbers,” and “paint by numbers” is a pretty accurate description of the traditional Japanese process of making a woodblock print, where colors are printed one by one and most of the major decisions about the image are made in the sketch phase. My recently deceased labrador retriever Ty was very much on my mind when the time came to create this print, so I decided to do a paint by number portrait of him. “What I translate or paint adds up to the invisible, the unaccounted for” states the poem. I decided to do a very close and intimate view of Ty’s fur rather than a typical face portrait, to emphasize the physical loss of his presence.”
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Watercolor painting Link to share this object record:
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