Live from Kathmandu: Still wet behind the ears
May 25, 2014
Sagar has been hard at work finishing his art, and most of these portraits are still wet behind the ears, so to speak.
Suzy and Sasha are an adorable pair who were photographed separately. Sagar gave them a cheerful background full of mountains and clean air.
Sometimes Sagar puts racy ladies as a backdrop to certain dogs. Charley is cute here in any case, though a bit out of focus.
Kali is looking fine in her third final (by Sagar).
Phyllo's portrait by Sagar is again misspelled as Beware of Grandy. This is being fixed, but these artists don't speak a lot of English and therefore do better with standard phrases. I don't get how two different studios, way across from town, both missed the spelling of Granny to 'Grandy'.
Buddy the Rottweiler Chow mix is very dapper in his final by Sagar.
Another pretty portrait of a stunning Setter named Guinness.
Otis and his epic jump is almost finished. Translating Super Dog into Nepali is surprisingly difficult.
This is Krishna, meant to be the Rajah of Sunder Nagar. But that is easily fixed. Krishna's carpet is lovely.
Paras' first Danger Dog is a doozy. I like the thought and care he put into the placement of the lettering and his signature.
There are some hard choices ahead.
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