ntopaz-image-0 Day 2 work on my New Year's piece:

As I shared this sketch yesterday:

And a couple little moments of playing with it, I knew today I had to keep working on it to try and hone what I hope to do this year.

My original intention was to try and get a piece done each day five days a week, but as I am at first hoping to choose one of my many styles in which to go forward, I thought it best to work again on this piece.

These layers were done over the sketch.

And toying with watercolour and bold line is enjoyable. I love to do such pieces and have had fun and success with them in the past.

As an example here is a French bulldog I did in my 'vintage bowl' series a few years back:

He looked rather good on things as well:

And as part of my focus for this year's resolution is to walk the line between Fine art and Graphic Design, the interplay of watercolour and bold ink lines seems to really appeal to me.

I can see a great series of dog breeds with and without the female form in as a great way to follow this line of creation.

Thus, playing in this vein this morning really felt 'right'. And as I had no preconceived notion of the direction I wanted to take this 'singular' style this year, I just thought I'd play and see what is what.

The decision for my work to include animals and particularly dogs was not a hard part of choosing this year's Art Resolution. This can be evidenced by today's morning ramble to our tea room where in not Only Ivan happily shared the place with us,

But two other dogs as well.

And this little fellow kept making 'eyes' at Ivan and wagging his tail.

It's easy to see that dogs are an easy choice in many decisions for me, even those involving my art.

Well, here we are already into day 2 of a new year. I hope all of you are happily heading into the New Year with hope and joy. I know I was Very happy to have Steemit in my life in 2018 and will surely be glad of it in this year as well.

How has day two of any of your resolutions come along thus far?

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Another Day on My New Years Art and Dogs

These layers were done over the sketch.

As an example here is a French bulldog I did in my 'vintage bowl' series a few years back:

I can see a great series of dog breeds with and without the female form in as a great way to follow this line of creation.

And this little fellow kept making 'eyes' at Ivan and wagging his tail.

How has day two of any of your resolutions come along thus far?