Abigail (Abby) Sonatina

I lost my dog a little over a year ago. Man, it has been tough.

If you aren't a dog person and you roll your eyes at the above comment, I am sorry you've never felt connected to a dog. You don't know what you're missing. If you are a dog person, you get me.

Abby was my girl. For 12 years. I held her while the vet injected her with medication to stop her heart. I won't forget it. Ever. I still feel her around me. She left a big hole in my life. Get another dog? That's like saying, "have another baby" when you've lost a child. 

I have wanted to honour her with some sort of art piece. Cruising through photos of her, I have been trying to get a feeling for what would work best, what would make me want to work on it for hours on end. I want to capture her spirit somehow. I don't want it to be just another dog picture. I'm going to do some gesture drawings, contour drawings, and see what I can come up with. Hopefully, she will be sitting with her flowing coat covering my toes while I work.