Life And Paints

The teachers at the guide dogs school for the blind maintained that they never particularly favored any student but there was some controversy as a portrait of one graduate was recently displayed in the non profit institution. The dog in the picture is Jeannie the golden retriever and she was assigned to work with a Denver, Colorado lady. The artist who did this portrait of Jeannie the dog can no longer see today. For some people, like this artist, it is important to have something to turn to when you are in a deep place and painting saved her. In most occasions, you will find her painting the Indian life in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona when her eyesight was still okay. You might be wondering if she still paints.

Nowadays, she never paints without first gathering her thoughts. She is able to paint wondrous things with only a series of pictures in her noggin. She has long stopped with the usage of pins for outlines when she discovered how they could be damaging to the canvasses. Pins are no longer necessary when it comes to her painting.

The painting of Jeannie was actually started with a line drawing made with a crayon. After making the outline, she paints inside the lines with a brush in her right hand. How did the artist manage to paint v when she had no image to work with considering that she was blind at the time?

On the day that Jeannie was given to this artist, the instructor at the school described how she looked. Golden and brown with a little bit of bronze, much like the setting sun, is how Jeannie was described by her instructor. She smells the pigments to tell them apart and she only makes use of three colors at a time whenever she paints.

Throughout the entire painting, she created a likeness of Jeannie by using a small paint brush and when she was about to do her tail, she used her fingers so that it would look proud and fluffy. Asked if it wasn't frustrating not to be able to see her finished work, to tell how good it was, she laughed and says that the portrait of Jeannie is good and she knows it is. According to her, Jeannie was actually delighted when she caught a glimpse of her portrait.

She really painted Jeannie well. Her life after graduating from the guide dogs school for the blind has continued to be productive. More than 87 per cent of the school's alumni are gainfully employed at jobs that range from newspaper delivery to hair styling. Those who graduated from this school did not have to pay for anything even if it took $1700 to pay for the training that was necessary for each man and dog team.

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