This doggo has appeared throughout my development for BOBA DOG, and even though she didn't appear in my final paintings her spirit was immortalised in my single favourite thing I have ever made:
DOG BENCH!
I was inspired by Misaki Kawai who makes wonderful furniture for her exhibitions. I needed something to display my ceramics, something that wouldn't detract from the pieces but also added to the exhibition.
Whilst I'm not awful at D.I.Y type jobs, I am a bit of a haemophiliac and because of that I'm super cautious about blades, screws, drilling, nails - all the sharp bits from furniture making. So I enlisted my Dad to do the potentially dangerous things. First off I designed the piece and made a mock up from paper. You can see in the image on the right how we used this to cut out some thick MDF. It was originally a very simple three piece design that would have slotted together and been pretty portable. It got a bit complicated when we could not locate our router! Hand-sawing a slot was not an option so we had to find a way of screwing it together. 
We added a support beam under the centre panel and spent a long time putting the dog in weird positions. (Above: downward facing dog.) It was stressful and complicated but we did it!
Painting took the longest out of all the steps. I sanded, primed, sanded, undercoat, sanded, gloss coat, drying, gloss coat, drying, and finally added the details.
The dog ended up looking really great in the space, I was really glad!
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