My submission for Atomhawk's 4th annual art competition; 'The Adventure Begins.'

There was a lot of back and forth to deciding what to do for the competition, and while I took my own dogs out for a walk to grab reference images to potentially use in my art piece, this idea suddenly sprung to mind because to my dogs, every walk is a new, exciting adventure.

Furthermore I had a lot of debate with myself whether I wanted this piece to be based on a beach, overlooking the sea or like this in a flower field but ultimately went with the windmill poppy field. I felt like this allowed me to tell more of a story with my art work.

The artwork itself consists of a mix of photobashing and matte painting and there were three variations to the final artwork - one being the dog with a harness, one with a collar and one with neither. My submission consisted of the dog with the harness.