Bane Milenkovic I

Bane Milenkovic is an artist from Novi Sad who paints many subjects still life and landscape he trained under the abstract painter Ferdinand Kulmer. Today I have chosen his lively works on paper featuring dogs.

A House in Cornwall II

These beautiful ceramic sculptures of dogs were also in the house, however I cannot find out who made them. They are signed T.B 2000 so if anyone knows who's they are then  please let me know.

Bill Traylor

Having Mentioned Bill Traylor in the previous post I thought it best to share some of Bill Traylor's wonderful cats and dogs, I think what makes these works even more enegmatic is the random shapes of the scraps of paper on which Bill drew them.   

Bill Traylor (1854?–1949) was born into slavery on a plantation in Alabama. After emancipation, he continued to live and work on the plantation until sometime before 1928, when he moved permanently to Montgomery. There he worked as a laborer and briefly in a shoe factory until he was physically unable to continue, then began receiving modest government assistance. Under the challenging conditions of Depression-era Alabama, Traylor survived on the streets in the then primarily black enclave of Monroe Avenue (now called Monroe Street). He slept first in the storage room of a funeral parlor, then in a shoe repair shop, and spent his days sitting on the sidewalks, creating the more than 1,200 drawings he is believed to have produced. High Museum of Art

Joe Crabtree of Rawbone Studio

Wild and uncontrollable creativity, fueled by too many sardines. These fantastic tin can creations are the work of Joe Crabtree from Ron and Joe and then are shamelessly promoted by the wonderful Robin Romain of Rawbone Studio to view more of these fantastic fun recycled cans and the wonderful work of Robin Romain you can visit their shop.

Jill Mayberg's Dogs

Bright, busy, rich, lush and exciting paintings by Jill Mayberg, who's iconography includes cows, dogs, elephants and chickens.

Sheila Norgate

Love Sheila Norgate's painting, love the titles, the style, the subjects and the humour.

More Dogs Are Gathering

Dog illustrations for an exhibition in aid of Gracehounds Greyhound Charity. 30th of May, at Vogrie Park Gorebridge Midlothian, south of Edinburgh.

Laura Balombini

Top: Spots House, Bottom Spots Ride.

Laura does very bright rich paintings and these very surreal little sculptures, some are a little scary, but some are wonderful, have a look.

http://www.lbalombini.com

Dog Days

This is my 'Pedigree', today I'm hoping to start producing some dogs for an exhibition event at Vogrie, Midlothian, in aid of the grey hound charity Gracehounds. Its quite hard to do this in the style that I have been working in because unlike cats who seem to suit X ray pictures where you can place birds and fish in their stomachs dogs just don't work. However I also want to try producing some Indian style miniatures. See you soon...