A muscle dog moved in on Tuesday. She’s piebald black & white. This is the kind of dog that doesn’t bark much because she’s all power. She doesn’t make big demands other than petting, loving, assurance and a nice place to sleep.
The cats hate her. All of the cats hate her. My neighbors cats hate her. My neighbor’s cousin’s cats hate her. They didn’t like our previous dogs either but they didn’t run up trees with those. This dog didn’t even chase the cat and the cat went vertical into the canopy of our garden house’s woods. The black cat with Siamese strain in him arched up and hissed at her. My Maine Coon Tabby mix squeezed through the fence to run off to the neighbors’ yard. This was all while the dog was not chasing either cat. This was while the dog was standing still. All muscle, she is.
When she chases her tennis ball, the earth respects her run. It moves beneath her muscled feet. It doesn’t even kick up…it just moves to make her moves look heavy. The grass moves out of the way. Her round about the winter roses makes the white picket fence stand out whiter against the black earth she uncovers.
I lashed into her with paint. Using the H2O version of oil paints is a hybrid between acrylic, watercolors and original oil paint. Water Soluble oils have a treated oil that dissolves with water. It came out at the same time as potato chip oil that doesn’t digest.
The paint in the H2O Winsor & Newton Artisan set are 37 ml tubes. The six are: Permanent Alizarin Crimson, French Ultramarine Blue, Titanium White, Phtalo Green (Blue Shade), Cadmium Yellow Pale Hue, and Yellow Ochre. Mixing for black were the Alizarin Crimson, French Ultramarine Blue and a tap of the intense green.
This muscle dog demands a meaty medium. Oil paints go with meat very well.