Recently, a picture of a graduate from the guide dogs school for the blind was displayed proudly on the walls of the school but those who worked there still maintained their stand when it comes to not favoring any single student. It was actually a portrait done of Jeannie the golden retriever, she is now working for a lady from Denver, Colorado. No longer able to see is the artist who was responsible for this spectacular portrait of Jeannie. For some people, like this artist, it is important to have something to turn to when you are in a deep place and painting saved her. Usually, she would consider the Indian life in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona in her paintings before she went blind.
It is important that she has time to get her ideas straight before she paints. When she paints, the images do not originate from her eyes but instead from her head. Damaging her painting surfaces were the pins that she began to use in creating outlines of the images she wanted to paint. Then eventually, she was able to devise a new and better technique.
On her canvas, she created a line drawing with a crayon to start off Jeannie's painting. After making the outline, she paints inside the lines with a brush in her right hand.
When Jeannie was given to this artist, the instructor at the school described her and this was what she used to paint her. Golden with some highlights of bronze and brown, the instructor told her that Jeannie was like the sun. Per given time, she only uses two to three colors of paint and to tell the pigments apart, she smells them.
She wanted the tail to be proud and fluffy and so she used her finger for this part but for the rest of the portrait, she used a small paint brush. She paints a lot of things and even without her sense of sight, she can tell if they look good or not, I guess it is simply all in the gut when it comes to this artist. She adds that when the portrait was finally done and was showed to Jeannie, she growled and did a little dance.
She really painted Jeannie well. She is just one of the many graduates of this guide dogs school for the blind who is able to live a useful and productive life. Employed in various occupations are the graduates of this institution. This is a non profit organization which operates mostly on volunteer contributions, they incur an expense of $1700 per man and dog team but the students are not asked to pay for anything.
It is important that she has time to get her ideas straight before she paints. When she paints, the images do not originate from her eyes but instead from her head. Damaging her painting surfaces were the pins that she began to use in creating outlines of the images she wanted to paint. Then eventually, she was able to devise a new and better technique.
On her canvas, she created a line drawing with a crayon to start off Jeannie's painting. After making the outline, she paints inside the lines with a brush in her right hand.
When Jeannie was given to this artist, the instructor at the school described her and this was what she used to paint her. Golden with some highlights of bronze and brown, the instructor told her that Jeannie was like the sun. Per given time, she only uses two to three colors of paint and to tell the pigments apart, she smells them.
She wanted the tail to be proud and fluffy and so she used her finger for this part but for the rest of the portrait, she used a small paint brush. She paints a lot of things and even without her sense of sight, she can tell if they look good or not, I guess it is simply all in the gut when it comes to this artist. She adds that when the portrait was finally done and was showed to Jeannie, she growled and did a little dance.
She really painted Jeannie well. She is just one of the many graduates of this guide dogs school for the blind who is able to live a useful and productive life. Employed in various occupations are the graduates of this institution. This is a non profit organization which operates mostly on volunteer contributions, they incur an expense of $1700 per man and dog team but the students are not asked to pay for anything.