by Hope Lane | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog
Sketch for a Portrait of Candy the Havanese I was looking through my photos to see which paintings I haven’t posted yet and I came across Candy’s. Her portrait was the result of a painting I donated to help raise funds to a Havanese Rescue group (HRI) for...
by Hope Lane | Sep 16, 2017 | Blog
Celebrating Florida Dogs With Latte the Havanese As some of you know–I live in coastal Florida and this week has certainly been challenging due to Hurricane Irma. The thing about evacuating–you start to take stock of all the things you value and what is...
by Hope Lane | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog
Final Painting of Three Havanese Three Amigos 24″ x 18 Acrylic on archival panel by Hope Lane Apologies to all for such a long delay in posting the finished painting–I got hit by this year’s flu. Now I’m back in the studio and painting away!...
by Hope Lane | Feb 1, 2017 | Blog
Close Up of Julio the Havanese From the rough painting, I continued to refine detail. This is a close up of little Julio, the youngest of my Tres Amigos. I love his happy smile and little up do ponytail....
by Hope Lane | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog
From Sketch to Rough Paint Working with a largish bristle brush, I’ve roughed in a first layer of acrylic paint for my three little Havanese painting. I usually keep the paint fairly diluted at this stage so my paintings look quite a bit like watercolors. From...