In the artist’s chair sits the Blue Dog like a person —like the artist himself.  Painted in a uniform bright blue, the dog contrasts with the painterly, more natural world around it.  The easel holds a typical, yet unfinished early Rodrigue landscape painting.  Through the window is a finished landscape, full of color and hope, like a brand new day.

“Sometimes I incorporate the Blue Dog with the old Cajun landscape that I used to paint.  But I put a new twist on it, relating the contemporary Blue Dog to the old style.  I like to look back…

“Unlike the black bayous and dark trees of my early Cajun paintings, I use color to reflect a modern Louisiana.  In the art world, the use of color, especially flat, bright color, is modern in the Pop Art vein.  I contrast the two styles, making both the dog and the overall composition more important.”  -G.R.

About this special and traditional print-making process, Rodrigue explained, “Unlike my silkscreens, this print comes from an original painting.  I also worked with fifteen other artists and craftsmen to make this happen.  Each person specializes in a different field including separating the colors, etching the stone, and hand-printing the colors individually, layered one on top of the other, creating a continuous tone image similar to an original painting.”

Read more in Wendy Rodrigue’s Life and Legacy page.

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