Christmas Dog, 2000
acrylic on canvas 24 x 18 inches
Christmas Dog was my project for Christmas break my senior year in high school. At the time I had been giving a lot of thought to the differences between painting and photography and exploring those differences in my paintings. Christmas Dog is painted from an old photo of the family dog with a Christmas present in her mouth. I chose the photo because it is unmistakably photographic because of the flashbulb lighting and the glare in the dog’s eyes.
