Nano (Great Dane), from Painting a Dog a Day

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"Nano (Great Dane Study)," 8" x 10", Great Dane dog portrait in acrylic on canvasboard, $449.

Can you see the pockets of saturated crimson peeking out from behind everything? I toned (meaning painted the entirety of) the board with a mixture of alizarine crimson and quinacridone scarlet, allowing that to dry before sketching my composition overtop.

I chose the red-orange underpainting because I wanted to dog to have a blueish tone to him, coupled with the green background, and the particular shades of red, blue and green that I chose are compliments (meaning they sit opposite each other on the color wheel). Compliments, when placed together, make each other vibrate or shimmer.

Added on Sep 15, 2009

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