Yellow Lab Painting – “Thomasville Yellow”

A Yellow Lab resting towards sunset near Thomasville, GA.

Yellow Lab Watercolor Painting – “Thomasville Yellow”

This yellow lab painting is called “Thomasville Yellow” because that’s the near the town where the dog was resting.He was beside the training ponds at Borderline. This guy was watching other dogs take their turns at the line as the sun was beginning to set. Yellow Labs are fun to paint because of all the varied color – especially when the light dims. So in regards to this painting, I used blues, alizarin crimson, raw sienna and other colors to get the yellow coat in the painting.

I used this painting in an advertisement for commissions and very rarely do I sell an original off an ad, but someone in Texas called and purchased it.

The progress of the painting is shown below.

This watercolor was reproduced as a Michaelian Home pillow for a couple years. It is out of stock now, but you can see it below. Michaelian Home is a great pillow company that makes quality print and needlepoint pillows. To see more of the pillows, go to michaelianhome.com.

Watercolor

Size: Apx: 15″ x 20″

First outline of the sketch for Thomasville Yellow — First progress
The sketch was transferred to the watercolor board and cleaned up so there is a s little graphite as possible.

Second progress photo of the Yellow Lab painting — Starting to put in the color
I started adding color with eyes and nose first and then expanding from there.

Third progress photo of the Yellow Lab painting — More work on head and neck

Fourth progress photo of the Yellow Lab painting — Next Stage
Now the whole head and neck is almost finished.

Fifth progress photo of the Yellow Lab painting — Painting the rest of the body
Now I go in and add all the first layer of color to the rest of the body.

Sixth photo of the progress of the Yellow Lab painting — Almost finished
Now I go in and add layers of watercolor. I get detail in the painting by bringing up the layers of color gradually.

“Thomasville Yellow Michaelian Home needlepoint pillow”