Horse and Hound Sketches and a Dog Skull
It's the Annual 'Pferd und Jagd' Fair (Horse and Hunt) in Hannover, and I use the oportunity to do some sketching. Here are the best of today's crop:
An Andalusian Stallion dozing:
Some quick studies of a Whippet in a soft basket:
In other news, I am now the proud owner of a dog skull!
You never know what you stumble upon on a fair. In this case, in the 'Hunting' section I met a man who had a variety of skulls for sale: crow, badger, roe deer, fox, two dogs and a miniature pig. I have long wanted to add a dog skull to my smallskull collection. Skulls and skeletons are a valuable help for learning the form of an animal. There are of course photos and drawings, but the actual three-dimensional real thing is best.
So far my own skull collection consists of various mice (killed by cats, cleaned by me), a blackbird (found in the garden, cleaned by ants) a cat, (upper skull only, most teeth missing, found in a forest) a fox (bought) and my pride and joy, a horse skull (also bought). And now a dog. It is a male Beagle. It's very interesting to compare it with my other canine, the fox.
It looks a little bit distorted because I just placed it on the scanner.
I think I need to go back tomorrow and buy the miniature pig, too.
Yes, I'm a geek.
An Andalusian Stallion dozing:
Some quick studies of a Whippet in a soft basket:
In other news, I am now the proud owner of a dog skull!
You never know what you stumble upon on a fair. In this case, in the 'Hunting' section I met a man who had a variety of skulls for sale: crow, badger, roe deer, fox, two dogs and a miniature pig. I have long wanted to add a dog skull to my smallskull collection. Skulls and skeletons are a valuable help for learning the form of an animal. There are of course photos and drawings, but the actual three-dimensional real thing is best.
So far my own skull collection consists of various mice (killed by cats, cleaned by me), a blackbird (found in the garden, cleaned by ants) a cat, (upper skull only, most teeth missing, found in a forest) a fox (bought) and my pride and joy, a horse skull (also bought). And now a dog. It is a male Beagle. It's very interesting to compare it with my other canine, the fox.
It looks a little bit distorted because I just placed it on the scanner.
I think I need to go back tomorrow and buy the miniature pig, too.
Yes, I'm a geek.