{"id":34,"date":"2026-02-11T05:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:03:16","slug":"%f0%9f%8d%82-doggo-in-bloom-%f0%9f%8c%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/%f0%9f%8d%82-doggo-in-bloom-%f0%9f%8c%bf\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf42 Doggo in Bloom \ud83c\udf3f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wanted to share a painting I made recently featuring my friend’s Shih Tzu dog named Nikki rolling around in some autumn foliage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used watercolor and gouache on 140lbs watercolor paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t drawn many dogs compared to cats, so I ended up making 4 sketches before I had one I was happy with. I always love drawing paws, paw fingers, toe beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After I finished the sketch, I did a light wash of orange watercolor over the entire painting and started using different colors to work on the foliage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I continued to use more orange washes to develop shadows and light and work on the foliage some more. I started to develop the face and tried to paint chunks of fur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used blue gouache for the sky color, some little lights on the fur, and white gouache for eye shines<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do want to paint more Nikki however right now I am trying to get a larger repository of animals and dog breeds in my portfolio. Next I am going to paint a whimsical toy poodle having a tea party~\u22c6\u2615\ufe0e\u02d6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wanted to share a painting I made recently featuring my friend’s Shih Tzu dog named Nikki rolling around in some autumn foliage. I used watercolor and gouache on 140lbs watercolor paper. I haven’t drawn many dogs compared to cats, so I ended up making 4 sketches before I had one I was happy with. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunatopaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}