We hope you enjoy studying Gainsborough’s “Two Shepherd Boys with dogs fighting”. Please share your thoughts, writing and art with us below.
Week 3: Two Shepherd Boys
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We hope you enjoy studying Gainsborough’s “Two Shepherd Boys with dogs fighting”. Please share your thoughts, writing and art with us below.
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I think that the boys are trying to stop the dogs from fighting but they are getting
scared.They are throwing a stick.
I think that the boys are trying to stop the dog from fighting by throwing a stick.
I think it is 2 kids,they are 1v1 their wolves and dogs but the dog is losing
4 Green at Ashmount have really enjoyed analysing this painting and acting it out! We then created our comic strips!
Congratulations Ashmount on creating some wonderful comic strips.
Comic strip by Issah
That’s wonderful Issah. It’s interesting seeing the painting reimagined as a comic strip.
Comic strip by Haider
Wonderful work Haider. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Comic strip by Nyah
That’s wonderful. Congratulations Nyah. I hope you’re proud of your work.
My opinion on this picture is if you look closely one of the boys are smiling because her dog is winning and the boy that is smiling is holding the other boy. At first I thought she was scared and that is maybe why he is holding him and the smile was just a mistake but it is not a mistake and he is holding him so he cannot stop the fight. There is a message that the painter is giving me in the painting in the painting both of the boys are rivals and in real life the painter of this painting is rivals with someone else that is a painter.
Yes Massih. The painter Sir Thomas Gainsborough is rivals with Sir Joshua Reynolds who painted the “Miranda as Mrs Tollemache painting”.
Here are the photos from Canonbury – Gainsborough used to make landscape compositions from food….so much fun!
More art sketches
Food landscapes!
More food
a food river
another landscape
Great to see broccoli featuring. Gainsborough would be proud.
More food artwork
sketches
more sketches
Food Landscapes
Food…
Thank you for sharing. It’s wonderful seeing you experiment with art in this way.
art with food
food artwork
Oh that’s fabulous Prometheus.
I feel scared for the boy because his dog is getting attacked and the other boy is holding
back from stopping the fight.
The left corner side is very calm and peaceful including the white and fluffy clouds but the other side makes me feel heartbroken and cross because the left side has colorful colours and the right side has aggresive fighting and it’s very sad.
The artwork makes me feel worried even desperate for the dog to get out of the way so the dog doesn’t bite the bite the other dog. I don’t like the boy holding the other boy because of his gleeful grin.
The painting makes me feel crestfallen. It also makes me indinant i want to jump in the painting and help the red hair boy.
It makes me feel frightened because I don’t want the light dog to get hurt or killed . I think the dark haired boy is Joshua Reynolds and the light haired boy is Thomas Gainsborough.
This painting makes me feel unhappy and anxious because the two dogs are fighting and getting hurt and the red haired boy is trying to stop it and the other boy is holding him back and pulling a gleeful smirk while the two dogs fight and i just want to help the red haired boy stop the fight and stop the other boy.
It makes me feel unhappy because the dark hair boy is trying to make the red haired boy miserable. Also I feel upset for the light dog because he is getting hurt.I also think that the red haired boy represents life and hope and the dark haired boy represents evil and hate
It makes me feel sad because the boy with the red hair is being held back from helping his dog while the dark hair boys dog tries to hurt him
I feel sad,worried and upset because I think the light dog is going to get killed or really hurt. I feel like going into the painting and helping the dog and the boy he looks really sad,worried and hurt and his dog is really hurt now.
This painting makes me feel agitated and irate at how sordid and depraved the dark haired boy is(Reynolds).It makes me feel anxious about what will happen to the dog and how miserable the red haired boy is.It makes me feel indignant ,I want to step in the painting and help them.It also represents the rivalry between Reynolds and Gainsborough.
I feel sad, worried and upset because I think the light dog is going to get killed or really hurt. I feel like going into the painting and helping the dog and the boy .He looks really sad, worried and hurt and his dog is really hurt now.
At first I felt confused but now that I looked at the details and really thought about it, I feel sorry for the ginger-haired boy so much I feel like I need to step into the painting and help him.
This picture makes me feel really sorry for the red -haired boy.I also think that the dark- haired boy represents evil and hate and that the red- haired boy represents life and hope.
Very interesting Orfeas to see the figures as representative.
I feel like i want to step into the painting and help the boy and his dog.
Yes many of you have mentioned this. Do you think the artist is provoking you?
When I first saw the painting, I thought it was two happy boys with their play fighting dogs, but now looking in greater depth, I’m angry about how the dark haired boy is stopping the red haired boy from saving his dog from being attacked or even killed.
The painting makes me feel anxious,nervous,worried,sad,bad and upset.I feel bad for the boy in the red coat because his poor dog is being hurt by the black dog.
I have another idea about this painting if this was a story before this time Joshua Reynolds was trying to steal Thomas Gainsborough’s sheep like stealing Thomas Gainsborough’s fame
That’s an interesting interpretation Massih.
i really love this painting i found it very intresting to look at I’ve really enjoyed looking at all these paintings.
It makes me feel worried because the boy on the rights dog is losing because the bully is stopping the fight.
I’m worried because I want to know what will happen to the white dog and fustrated
that the dark boy is just letting his dog kill the other dog.At first looking in the top left corner it looks like its going to be a happy painting but then when I look down to the right I realise that its a miserable,gloomy picture on one side and the other side is pleasant.
I feel sad,worried , scared because it is sad because the red headed dog is getting hurt by the
black headed dog I’m worried about because the red headed boy is getting hurt.
The artwork of this painting makes me feel frightened and heart broken I feel frightened because one of the dogs might get hurt and the reason I feel heartbroken is because I can not watch animals suffer especally if he is smirking whilst he is smirking whilst watching them suffer.
Yes Gaby it is a disturbing painting but does it grab our attention?
I feel sad,worried , scared because it is sad because the red headed dog is getting hurt by the
black headed dog I’m worried about because the red headed boy is getting hurt it is really sad.
I feel cross because the dark boys sinister smile is a bit excited because the left side is relaxing and calm and the rest is dark and gloomy . I think the dark boy is Joshua Reynolds and the red head is Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds is being very violent towards Thomas Gainsborough by holding him back and stuff like that.
At first I thought that the painting was really nice and the dogs were play fighting and the boy with black hair was stopping the ginger haired boy from getting hurt but now looking at it with more deeply. Now I feel worried and annoyed like I want to step in to the painting . I feel worried because the dog is getting attacked by the other dog and annoyed because the boy with black hair is stopping the other boy from helping his dog it makes me feel indigant.
I don’t like this because it has two dogs fighting in the forgound and two boys in an argument . It also is not good because it has a lot of dark coulours in it.`
It is amazing how the writing through art project has two paintings which are linked between Joshua Reynolds Miranda in the Tempest and Thomas Gainsborough because they were great rivals!
It is also quite cool that in the painting the two boys represent Joshua (dark haired boy) and Thomas (red haired boy)
I don’t like this painting because it’s very violent.It makes me feel scared that the paler dog might get hurt.The top left hand corner gives a very different feeling because it has paler coulurs.
I don’ like this painting because the two dogs fighting makes me feel like the dogs will come out.
I would rather be the ginger hair boy because he was only trying to look after his dog! If I was in his position I would feel controlled and no one wants to be in that position right? Lastly the black haired boy wasn’t nice so I would feel ashamed from doing it.
i like how the painting makes you feel that Joshua will grow up to be a mean and cruel adult if he is so rude as a child . I also like this painting because it is like the fight explodes in your face because in the background it is peacefull and calm.
I love this art work because, it has happy sheep in the background.
As you look in the background,you can see all the calm sheep grazing happily enjoying the sun.But when you look in the foreground you can see boys and dogs fighting.
I really like how these children could represent the two artists’forever fighting
Yes I enjoyed that too.
We like the painting because it is a mixture of landscape and portrait. We found out that the big tree in the background is shaped just like a stem of broccoli. Just today we saw that half of the painting is light and half of the painting is dark and shady.
hi i really like this painting because I like the motion the boy is trying to hit the dogs and the other boy holding him back.
We are really impressed by your interesting comments and your artwork! We hope you enjoyed ‘painting’ with food! Also the comic strips are very thoughtful and it is good to have a happy ending. Well done!