“Alfa-177 Canine”
upcycled vintage painting by Heather Castles

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For this alteration, I imagined I was painting a portrait for a proud dog owner from the planet Alfa-177! The extreme weather conditions of that planet resulted in strange mutations of the animals who lived there. So it’s much like an earth dog, but with a horn, antennae, scaled backbone, and hairless tail!

If you haven’t heard of an Alfa-177 canine before, it made its debut on “The Enemy Within,” one of my favourite episodes of TOS. It was a fun story based on the idea that the transporter was malfunctioning and beaming up two versions of the same being… you guessed it, one good and one evil! Made for some dramatic acting from Captain Kirk! And the dog dressed in this costume with the massive horn and antennae was just wonderfully hilarious… he looked totally not impressed!

The vintage painting I used for this artwork was in rough shape when it came to me… I’m sure someone loved their pekingese very much to have his portrait painted years ago, but it looked a bit scary with it’s glazed over eyes! The painting itself was covered with grime, and so I cleaned it and was able to get the blue skies and grey stone colours back. Then I had some fun transforming this blind purebred into a sweet natured space dog. 

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