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Jumong and Shoubi
 
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Jumong and Shoubi


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Just a small pastel painting that I done as a way of remembering Shoubi's best mate, Jumong - who sadly died while I was away on my recent commission at sea.

The official story that I was given was that Jumong got sick and died. Not surprising really, as he spent most of the last months of his life in misery, tied up on a short piece of chain and hardly cared for. More likely though, he would have been killed for food? Despite the appalling conditions under which he was being kept, Jumong was a tough little dog...

Anyway, whether he died, or was killed, I know for a fact that Jumong's carcass was not wasted. He did not get buried and he certainly had no flowers. So I decided to use a bit of artistic license and put some in the painting for him...

18 1/2" (47cm) x 12 1/2" (32cm) soft pastels on Saunders Waterford rough watercolor paper

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Some time after I painted that, I found-out that poor Jumong had in fact been killed and eaten by one of the so-called guards on the subdivision where I live...

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