Barney

Just as nice as it is to have a change of scenery I like to work on different pet portraits at the same time. It is good to be able to go back to a portrait after a break and look on it with fresh eyes. I decided the Irish setter needs that so I started Barney’s...

Setters

It’s been a long time since I painted a setter portrait and now I have two. I am working on an Irish setter, gorgeous red and white one and I also have a red setter portrait to do. Today I mainly took off, but tomorrow I really need to get the black lab portrait...

Pretty much anything but pet portraits

Well it’s been a difficult few months and you may have noticed the portraits haven’t been coming together as quickly and I haven’t been blogging as much. There have been reasons for this, some of which I may explain one day. At the moment I am not...

So rock and roll…..

Coupled with being ill and loosing a fill g my life has been pretty dull and filled with medical appointments recently. I haven’t done any socialising. I think I have forgotten how to! My kids have a better social life than me and the highlight of my day was to...

Double Spaniel portrait

I returned to this double dog portrait after it’s been sitting on the side for a while. I have been waiting for the frame to arrive and it has now, so I can get it finished up. I have tweak and tidied up a lot today and tomorrow I will have one final look before...