When It Comes To Jeannie

According to the guide dogs school for the blind which works as a non profit organization, they do not treat their students differently but they decided to hang a picture of one of the graduates up on a wall in the school. It was a picture of Jeannie the golden retriever and she has been helping a lady from Denver, Colorado. The picture of Jeannie was done by an artist who lost her sense of sight a couple of years back. The blind artist says that painting has always been such a release that she needed it more than ever when she lost her eyesight. Sceneries pertaining to the Indian life in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona were the focus of her works when she could still see. Is the situation the same?

She says that for days, even weeks before picking up the brush, she thinks. She does not need to see to paint for she gets ideas clearly in her head when she thinks. She has long stopped with the usage of pins for outlines when she discovered how they could be damaging to the canvasses. Pins have since been an obsolete tool for this artist.

What she used when she painted Jeannie was a crayon for making a line drawing. She carries a brush in her right hand and she follows the outline that she has just created.

On the day that Jeannie was given to this artist, the instructor at the school described how she looked. The setting sun is what closely represents Jeannie according to her instructor, gold with brown and bronze. The way she differentiates pigments is by using her sense of smell and she sees to it that she only uses two to three colors at a time.

Throughout the entire painting, she created a likeness of Jeannie by using a small paint brush and when she was about to do her tail, she used her fingers so that it would look proud and fluffy. There was a person who asked her whether or not she feels the frustration of not being able to see her works of art but she said that she knew perfectly well how each of her paintings looked. Even Jeannie gave her the stamp of approval when she revealed her portrait.

The outcome was exquisite. Her life remains to be useful after graduating from guide dogs school for the blind. Most of the people who graduate here live pretty normal lives. Each man and dog team will incur an expense of $1700 when it comes to the necessary training but the students here need not pay for any expense during their stay.

By: valenkaalma

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