Diane Calabro - Sketches of Dogs

Pen and Pencil Sketches and Paintings of Dogs.

Dog nut. I freely admit it. Here are some sketches and paintings of dogs. I work from photographs. I hope you like these.

These are some dogs in dresses. These are Anatolian Shepherd Dogs -- maybe actually a glamor dog! -- certainly most beautiful in their finery. First we have Queen Leylanie Loo, Queen Potato! And then her niece, Princess Blue-ee, and then Lady Joyeux pouring some tea, Our Man About Town, Mr. Splotch-Mon, and finally, Mr Lad-Din-Din-Din. Enjoy.

Pat's dog Millie

Donna's dog

Leyla and Aladdin

Submission to Anatolian Shepherd Dog breed show in St. Louis (of course). This did not end up on T-shirt.

The rest started out as my wish to make a simple line drawing of a dog. But it turns out that dogs are a bit more complicated. So each dog went from being just lines on the page to having expression and movement and, well, they just took me in. And then the simple lines gave way to more ornamentation and then more expression and then I started on those darn poodles with their pom poms. And that was the end of that simple idea.