Best Friend

This piece is a self-portrait. Between eight and eleven, my best friend was a shepherd and border collie mix that I named Lady, after my favourite movie at the time, Lady and the Tramp. I picked her out of a litter of eight pups. She stood out. She was so quietly sweet, with a lump on the top of her head, like in the cartoons, and a small white star on her forehead. She was perfect. This painting is based on a photo taken just after she had her own litter of eight. :)