It might help to cut out a square 10cm x 10cm from a plain piece of paper (so you have a piece of paper with a square hole in it like a picture frame). Place this over your sketches or photographs and move it around until you see a small section of pattern that you like.

The relationship with dogs humanizes people, and brings the best out of them,” Bray tells BBC Culture. “The connection calms people; anxiety can be conquered by it. It can be a transformative relationship.” Look through your source images. Can you see any shapes and patterns you find interesting and would like to use? Dog portraiture developed as an artistic genre contemporaneously with its human counterpart – dogs are represented in the earliest cave paintings alongside humans – and it flourished, particularly in Britain, from the 17th century onwards. More than any other nationality perhaps, the British have both commissioned and collected portraits of dogs. Turn your tracing paper over and place it on a sheet of paper. Trace over the lines of your motif with a pencil to transfer the image to the paper. Ruthie, the pup of German expressionist Franz Marc, is depicted in Dog Lying in the Snow, voted the Städel Museum’s most popular painting in 2008. We can’t be sure if the dog depicted is of the dachshund breed, but it does bear those familiar triangular ears and elongated log body. According to Marc, animals are the only innocent and pure creatures left in this corrupted world. Though, if he truly believed that, it is unlikely he ever encountered the headstrong and mischievous dachshund.

During research work for the exhibition, information was discovered about the dog that belonged to one of the Wallace Collection founders, Richard Wallace. “He had a dog called Snipe, who travelled with him everywhere and was his close companion,” Collins says. “He even had Snipe photographed by one of the leading 19th century photographers, and this photo features in the exhibition. So there is a lovely connection between Richard Wallace and the broader story of dogs.” Hoberman, J. (19 June 2019). "A Clearer Picture of 'A Bigger Splash' ". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 18 April 2022. Bonheur’s portrait is a superbly lifelike and intimate portrayal of her French otterhound, Brizo,” says Bray in the museum’s statement. “By contrast, Landseer is more interested in introducing a biblical parable into his portrayal, exemplifying the 19th-century urge to moralize through dog portraiture.”

And our interaction with these transitional creatures can be of profound consequence. "The relationship with dogs humanises people, and brings the best out of them," according to Bray. "The connection calms people – anxiety can be conquered by it – it can be a transformative relationship."Progress Medal". The Royal Photographic Society. Rps.org. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012 . Retrieved 14 August 2012. David Capra and Teena perform at TEDxSydney in June. Photograph: Catherine McElhone/2018 Catherine McElhone | TED Australian artist Bennett Miller is no stranger to the sausage dog form, staging the work Dachshund UN across the globe. Here, delegates were replaced by real dachshunds in a to-scale tiered model of the United Nations commission on human rights assembly.