Portraits of Wolfie
I needed a photo of my dog Wolfie because I’m working on an idea for a book that has a dog in it based on him and just having him here next to me isn’t enough. For one thing, he sleeps all the time unless I say, “Cookie,” and there’s a limit to how many of those I can feed him before he explodes. And I have a new laptop (GEEK LOVE!!!!) and it has a camera in it and Wolfie was on the bed with me while I was working, and I thought, “No brainer. Get a snapshot of the dog.”
Turns out Wolfie wasn’t in the mood to pose.
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I think he looks quite noble in this last one, beautiful profile, you can see his massive overbite very clearly. I look like a potato with hair, but you can’t have everything.
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Immediately after this, Wolfie went to sleep and I went back to writing. We stick with our strengths.
Nice. Very nice. Jenny in Bed with Wolfie. He does have a dignified profile.
And are those snails parading across the headboard?
Jenny sleeps with sea shells across her head board. Sounds like it should be a kids’ rhyme.
Wolfie is my kind of dog. Low maintenance, except for the truckload of cookies.
Love the photos. Especially the first one with that long pink tongue slipping over his snout. And glad to hear you got your new laptop. Does this mean Bob is getting the boat?
The real fun comes when you use all the weird effects in Photo Booth. My girls have given our dog two heads, for example, which I gather is hilarious.
Oooh. I have one of those little cameras too. Maybe Wolfie could have a video chat with Lion …except Lion also sleeps all the time, too. Boooring….
I thought Steve was based on Wolfie.
Looks like Jenny wasn’t in the mood to pose, either. Maybe nobody yelled “Cookie!” for her, either. Damn cookie-hoarding bastards…
Pam W.: *snort*
cute puppy. really cute. geez i miss my baby at home. at least yours kind of takes a picture. my dog runs as soon as she see’s one of us near the camera. huh, come to think of it, i do that too. my cats, however, are fine with it. one doesn’t move (i mean, the only reason we’re sure she is alive and ok is because we’ll poke her and then she’ll try to eat us, and sometimes she deems us worthy enough to pet her) and the other one is friendly.
and Jenny, which book? geez, for authors you and Bob sure like to be skimpy with the details on your perspective blogs.
Chesteroz is a silkie who wrote the book on Dogs Behaving Badly. As a non-fiction writer he doesn’t see the funny side of dogship. It’s all bad dog stuff as far as he’s concerned. He’s tied up at the moment, and extremely unhappy. The cleaner is here. He is dedicated to killing the vacuum cleaner and wants to be in deadly pursuit…
Not much getting written about here. It’s all Taming the Shoe… the vacuum is getting closer, the barking is getting louder … and the …
neighbours are getting cranky.
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Hey jenny, you should have put a cookie on your keyboard. And then another, and another….
Awww. He’s gorgeous. It made me go and hug my dog.
She’s so patient she sits beside me for hours while I type, then when I start to read things out loud she rolls her eyes and leaves the room. I figure the day she stays to listen, I’ll have this writing gig whipped. *grin*
Hey, Dug. Big wave.
Hey Roben - waving back.
Saving those pennies for Sydney?
The Cherry and the GAM….
The first one is very MySpace
You do not look like a potato with hair. Wolfie, on the other hand, is the picture of canine sufferance.
Wait, is this the bed you were bemoaning in the previous post? In these pictures, it looks pretty cool!
This what you need:
a formal portrait.
http://christinemerrill.com/merrill/merrillPRICES.CFM
I’ve talked to her (because I like her name). She says specializes in ‘gray faced canine Americans.
Maybe she can do you a mural.
Oh–I cannot wait! The first Crusie I read was Fast Women and it is the dachshund in it that is responsible for my Crusie addiction. You capture dogs better than any other writer I know (that’s supposed to be a compliment). A new Crusie with a dachshund–I feel like I’ve won the lottery! Er …publication is when??
Chris: HAH!
$12k and above sounds about right for a portrait of a pet. And a mural - I’m guessing ~$50k+?
C’mon Jenny, just how much *do* you love Wolfie?
rebecca’s right. this bed looks nice.
Steve was based on Wolfie. But Wolfie has many facets so he can inspire another dog character. And this book is still in the conceptual stage, nobody’s seen it yet, don’t even know if I can sell it when I get it to the concrete stage so that’s all you get about it.
Yes, that’s the bed I painted. But it has many coats of Sparkling Stone over the Rough Terrain so now I like it, too.
A mural of Wolfie. Crossing the Ohio? No.
“A mural of Wolfie. Crossing the Ohio? No.”
Aww, come on. He could stare majestically off into the distance. He’s only a couple inches off the ground. You wouldn’t need a very big mural to get to the end of his field of vision.
Until I chatted with her, I was worried that the ‘real’ Christine Merrill wouldn’t be able to get my dog’s inner psychotic on canvas. But now, I have great faith in her. Of course, I’m going to have to write many more books to afford the painting.
But if Wolfie is in your books? For you, this would be deductible.
Tilda does all my murals, thank you.
Wolfie in a mural. Yeah, that would add value to the house.