Daily drawing 9-9-2017: Dog studies. Dip-pen & ink.

I can’t remember this dog’s name, but I can remember its frenzy when we knocked on the door. It was whippet-shaped and mentally disturbed. Amos eventually calmed the dog by love-bombing. They lay on the couch together, belly to belly, which I can see clearly in my mind’s eye because I drew the two of them in that pose: I can see that the dog was black and white spotted with black ears. I can see Amos’ bowl-cut.

The house was in an olive orchard. I can hear the owner’s Italian accent as she speaks to the dog, but I still can’t hear the dog’s name, so I look it up in the back of the book: Gina. The true title of the drawing is ‘Gina in front of the fire’.