Mandy-girl, another painting of a dog.

My mother is hard to shop for. She always says she wants a gift card or she'll tell me exactly what to get her for her and I always feel like it takes all the fun out of getting her gifts. Her dog, the love of her life, passed away about 8 months ago. I have had a picture picked out of Mandy laying on top of a canvas since probably a month after she died. Never got around to painting it so like a month ago I thought, well, I'll paint it for her for Christmas. I also bought her a DVD (as instructed) of Eat, Pray, Love, as a back up in case she doesn't like the painting!
Here's the painting I used:

 and here is the painting.

I told her about the photo album that I was commissioned to do of a man's dead dog. She sort of chuckled like it was a weird gift for him to give that to his wife for Christmas. So here's to her not thinking it's a weird gift if it's HER dead dog. Ugh, this could go terribly wrong.

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