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Painting the Lab White

*This is a drawing based on a quote by Gary E Stevenson. It's also a Disney fan art drawing of Pongo the Dalmatian.
*Here's the full story: Years ago, I arrived home from work and was startled to see white paint splattered everywhere—on the ground, the garage door, and our red-brick house. I inspected the scene more closely and discovered the paint was still wet. A trail of paint led toward the backyard, and so I followed it. There, I found my five-year-old son with a paintbrush in his hand, chasing our dog. Our beautiful black Labrador was splattered almost half white! “What are you doing?” I asked in an animated voice. My son stopped, looked at me, looked at the dog, looked at the paintbrush dripping with paint, and said, “I just want him to look like the black-spotted dogs in the movie—you know, the one with 101 Dalmatians.” I loved our dog. I thought he was perfect, but that day my son had a different idea ... our young son had a beautiful dog as a pet; notwithstanding, he grabbed a gallon of paint and, with a paintbrush in hand, determined to create his own imagined reality.
*Made with a mechanical pencil, pink pearl eraser, kneeded eraser, India ink pen, watercolor pencils, inktense pencil, art gum eraser, Prismacolor fine liner pen, colored India ink pen, water, a watercolor brush, blue painters tape, white acrylic paint, and an acrylic paintbrush
*Time: about 6 hours and 40 minutes over the course of 14 days