Meet FLASH the Wonder Dog!

It’s time once again to get ready to Waddle.  As always we have a new tshirt design for 2014, but this year it’s really unique.  This year it was painted by a Basset, and a three-legged one at that!

Flash (The Wonder Dog) was rescued by Tri-State last summer after he was cruelly shot by his owner in Kentucky.   He had to have one leg amputated and another was badly damaged.  Sue Mason fell in love and adopted him, and his happy and loving approach to life prompted her to see how he would react to paw painting. Turns out he was just waiting to be asked!  While most dogs walk around on the paper with paint on their paws, Flash’s physical condition results in him sitting down on the painting a lot.  He wags his tail constantly and his one damaged paw gets pulled through the paint, both of which create
what look like brush marks, which are unique to Flash’s paintings.

Flash's Mom says, "I place a piece of 140# handmade watercolor paper on the floor and surround it with newspaper in a lame attempt to contain the mess.  Then Flash walks/slides his butt/sits on the paper while I periodically lift his good front paw up and apply the paint to it.  (I keep the creative juices flowing with bologne as he’s prone to naps).  I never direct the painting and only chose the paint colors.  When I feel there is enough pattern on the paper and before it starts to look muddy, I remove the paper to dry.   Once the paper is dry it’s up to me to find a suitable Basset silhouette in the paint pattern and cut it out.  It’s amazing but Bassets seem to leap off the paper.  I never do anything to enhance the image – Flash is the artist."

This year’s BoardWaddle shirt design is done in shades of green, yellow, pink and blue on a stone washed dark purple shirt.  The cheerful colors pop against the purple shirt and you can see paw prints as well as a pink mark where the eye is and a light tail tip, like a typical Basset.  We can safely say this is the first tshirt ever painted by a  three legged Basset Hound!   

UPDATE: Flash's BoardWaddle 2014 shirts have sold out, but He has come out with a NEW Fall Design! See it, and buy it HERE.