Artist James Swanson hails from a small town in Wisconsin. Life seemed to guide him towards a career as a forester until he realized that painting trees was much more convenient than sitting on them. His latest project was spurred by the passing of his dog, Amber. In her memory, James decided to initiate a series of paintings featuring dogs, one per day. Eventually, he painted so many pictures of wet dogs that it probably just became uneconomical to paint anything but dogs. By the way, he also has a painting featuring giraffes.













