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Grandma Set Up Her Easel in the Backyard. Her Most Loyal Art Critic Lay Down Beside It.

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A small wooden easel stands in the backyard holding a half-finished landscape of trees and soft green hills. Grandma Nell leans in close with a fine brush, glasses perched on her nose and a second pair pushed up into her white topknot, dabbing color onto the canvas with total focus. Her palette is crowded with blobs of paint, and a paint-smeared rag and garden gloves lie on the grass beside a thermos. Stretched out right next to her chair, Pepper rests his speckled black and white body in the grass, chin down, eyes heavy, perfectly content to keep the artist company.

Art supplies are worth keeping an eye on when a dog shares the studio. Some paints, solvents, and cleaners can be harmful if licked or swallowed, and brushes and rags covered in paint can look like fun chew toys. Water-based paints are generally a gentler choice for outdoor painting with pets around, but it is still best to keep cups of rinse water and tubes of paint out of reach. A comfortable mat or blanket placed nearby gives a dog a designated spot, which helps keep curious paws out of wet paint. If your dog does get into any art supplies, call your vet.

Pepper does not seem interested in the paints at all. He is simply happy to be part of the afternoon, soaking up the sunshine at Nell's side.

Maybe the next painting will feature a certain scruffy model. He is already holding the perfect pose.

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