Thanks for the nice comments.
I was happy with how this came out, too. In the close ups, the dog does seem to have a very typical dog looking at his master experssion. .
On the blues, I used a base of Vallejo sky blu or deep sky blue...haard to tell them apart once they are out of the bottle. In hte shadows, I used a very thinned dark blue. One of the beauties of Vallejo is that even very thinned paint will neither bead up nor over spread so you can maintain a lot of control. Since the folds were pretty sharp edged, I did very careful dry brushing with ivory.