Gambler In Pencil

From start to finish.

I won a raffle back in April at my ACC WI Chessie Fun Day, which was for a pencil drawing from my friend whom I do my dog training with. Sandy paints/draws in her spare time, usually when she winters in Georgia, while there she also takes art classes each year. I had a hard time deciding which dog I wanted Sandy to draw. I finally decided that I wanted her to draw Gambler. I have one picture out of 2000 that is my most favorite of all which I go to when I want to post up a really nice photo of him.

I took this photo while hunting in Saskatchewan. I just love the detail of the duck in this photo, so crisp, clean and clear. I believe this is when Gambler was 3 year old.

Below are the photos from start to finish showing the progress of the drawing. Sandy would send me photos as she was drawing so if she needed to change something she could before she got to far and couldn’t go back. She would send the photos to her friends as well. I didn’t find anything that ever needed to be changed as I was loving it. Her friends told her little changes, when she made the changes it then improved the drawing.

Once the drawing was done I took it to Hobby Lobby to have it framed and matted. I chose the rustic look to the frame as I have tongue and groove walls in the living room. I chose the mat colors to help Gambler pop. The one thing that I would do differently is I would get anti glare glass. I thought about it but really didn’t think it would make a difference, well it did make a difference, I have many windows in my house and where I hung the drawing you can see reflections in it.

I just love this drawing. Sandy did such a fabulous job on it. What makes it even more special is that my dog training friend and chessie mentor Sandy drew it for me. I will have this drawing for many years to come and I will look at it and remember the special friendship we have.

Sandy does do custom work, if you would like to have a painting/drawing from her you can email her at sandy@cursan.com.