Happiness Is a joyful puppy with balloons trotting on Cloud 9. I think of the subject as symbolic of exuberant youth and health possessing sufficient of this worlds goods, (Big balloons! Yet the puppy does not feel the need to chase after them all.) along with friendship and love (the heart-shaped balloon), on a foundation of spiritual attainment, symbolized by the cloud.
This painting has been accepted into the 56th Annual Newport Beach Art Exhibition October 2021. It received Honorable Mention in the Oil Painters of America Spring 2019 Online Showcase. I was pleased and honored to read, in a congratulatory letter from Oil Painters of America, that my painting was chosen from a field of 527 works. It was also juried into the Orange County Fair, California, from among 6,000 entries in the arts divisions and was on exhibition there from July 12-August 11, 2019.
- Subject Matter: Dogs
- Collections: Gone To The Dogs
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