We had the unexpected surprise of being greeted by many ‘Blue Dogs’ at the New Orleans Sheraton when we checked in for the Color Marketing Group International Conference.
This iconic image created by artist George Rodrigue was everywhere!
Aren’t these images perfect for our colorful group?
I love the Blue Dog paintings so want to share a couple of fun facts and links to more information about this iconic canine and his creator artist George Rodrigue.
The first Blue Dog was painted in 1984 as a loup-garou, a word translated from the French for ‘werewolf. Read more about the origins of the Blue Dog paintings on Musings of an Artist’s Wife…
There is a wonderful Blue Dog book. Blue Dog’s first printing was 5,000 copies in the fall of 1994. To date, it’s been printed in five languages and sold more than 200,000 copies. It is a phenomenon and indeed a legend in the world of art book publishing. Read more about how the book on Musings of an Artist’s Wife…
For more about the artist and his paintings visit the official site of The Art of George Rodigue…
Hey, here are some few facts I have learnt about dogs. First of all I must say I love dogs to the max and always love to read more about them. So here are some facts about them. According to recent genetic fossil and DNA evidence, dogs were first domesticated from wolves at least 17,000 years ago, but perhaps as early as 150,000 years ago.
In our time now, dogs have developed into hundreds of breeds with a huge level of variation. The oldest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years, 5 months for a Queensland ‘heeler’ called Bluey in Victoria, Australia. The average dog lives to around 15 years of age. Chihuahua is the smallest breed of dog; it weighs only 4 pounds and is 5 inches high at the shoulders. The tallest breed is the Irish wolfhound. It is about thirty-nine inches tall at the shoulder. The St. Bernard is the heaviest dog. It can weigh about 200 pounds. The Yorkshire terrier has hair that can be two feet long while other breeds may have no hair at all such as the Mexican hairless.
Naturally, dogs have a wonderful sense of smell. They have many more sensory ’smelling’ cells than a man’s 5,000,000. Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas. Hope you enjoyed these facts, I will be back to post more soon.
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