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Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

The Dog Portrait Artist

Where do I begin? Do I start at primary school where, like so many children before and after me, I drew my favourite cartoon characters?

Do I start at aged 12, drawing my guinea pig (I wasn’t allowed to have a horse) who courageously sat through hours of being used as a life model?

Do I start in high school where I was taught to draw with the “right side of my brain” and was really impressed when my drawings actually looked like what it was supposed to?

Or do I start aged 38 when I decided to live in the moment like the

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