About this section
Breed portraits and genre scenes with dogs: shepherds and huskies through to dachshunds and corgis. The second largest animal subsection after cats.
A dog portrait lives or dies on the muzzle — nose, eyes and the fur around them take most of the palette. Short-haired breeds are easier than long-haired ones: a pug or a doberman has fewer transitions than a collie. As a gift for the owner of a particular breed, go from 50x70 up — on a smaller canvas the characteristic features get simplified. The section currently holds 399 designs.
Sizes, difficulty and palette
Canvas formats here run from 40x40 to 80x120 cm — 12 sizes in total. The most common one is 40x60 cm: 41 designs.
Difficulty runs from level 2 to level 5, and level 3 covers 83% of the designs. Palettes range from 5 to 25 colours.
What comes in the box
Every kit in this section ships the same way: a cotton canvas already stretched over a wooden frame, numbered acrylic paints, two brushes, a control sheet and instructions. Nothing else is needed to start, and once the paint has dried the canvas hangs on the wall without a frame.
