Toffee

Greetings Readers
        It has been a while since I lasted posted, and I really needed to take a little break from some of my Internet activities including my blog.It has been a very eventful six months of which I will talk about in another post, as I want to make this one about Toffee the gorgeous Golden Retriever you see above. What a handsome boy and a real joy to draw. I was asked to do this by a blog pal, for her very good friend as a Xmas gift, which she has now received and I am able to share with you. This is one of those pictures that I started and was able to work straight through without too many adjustments, in part because I had such a good reference photo to work from, and who could not resist that lovely looking face and expression !  I used a mixture of Prisma and Derwents artist range, golden brown,jasmine, raw umber,peach beige,rosy beige and cream for the fur, a mixture of dark brown, burnt ochre, burnt umber for the eyes, beautiful cinnamon,blue grey,medium flesh, a tad carmine for that lolling tongue. The very darkest of darks I used a mix of black cherry, black and some burnt umber thrown together with a palette of assorted greys on Stonehenge Paper, white and you get Toffee ! There was a few other colours too, but as they were quite small amounts of each I tend not to take too much of a note of those, as they are random and used as I fancy. The size was 12 x 10 mounted in off white.
  
    Toffee does not have a blog but my blog pal who asked me to do this does and you can read all about her here Zola    she is a stunning,youthful, bouncy Rhodesian Ridgeback living in the South of France, and you will see more of her here in the near future.


   I do have a quite a lot more finished pieces to share with you all and I will stagger them out over the coming the weeks, going to try and use the schedule setting for a change and see if I can my postings a little more organised !