Apr 18, 2019
I am going to sketch Bronte out tomorrow and start work on this gorgeous dogs portrait. I have started this blog tonight with not much to share, mainly to remind myself to add to it when I start. As I have been so busy recently my blogs have been somewhat neglected,...
Apr 14, 2019
Well some people class Sunday as the beginning of a new week I guess. The reason I have started a new blog as I feel it is time to draw a line under the bad and focus on the positives. When you have anxiety and depression it can be all to easy to get dragged down...
Apr 10, 2019
In pastels and watercolours! What a lucky girl! It’s lovely being a pet portrait artist. There is so much cruelty in the world towards animals. You see it all over your newsfeed on Facebook, read about it in the papers. It’s everywhere. It makes me sad...
Apr 8, 2019
Out Nordic walking in walk leader capacity. I need to learn my routes so much better! I an another guy got separated, thank goodness I had walked that route back to front on my birthday so I managed to get us back to the main group, not with some indecision mind haha,...
Apr 6, 2019
I don’t get photos of clients with their portraits or pets with their portraits very often, but when I do it’s like Christmas, I love it. It’s one of my favourite things. I got one such photo today of a double dog portrait I did a couple of weeks...
Apr 2, 2019
I think this could be a fun blog post, and it’s good to air some skeletons hidden in every artists closet, or maybe it is just mine! Everything you see on my website is polished, pretty much perfectly executed and I am happy with. Well probably not totally in my...
Apr 2, 2019
So it is a bit of a rarity to get cat paintings, so it is a real treat to get some. Last year I had quite a few commissions of cats at the beginning of the year, but this year has been quiet on the cat front, apart from Daisy, watercolour portrait I had in January. So...
Apr 2, 2019
I have been looking forward to these guys and gals for a while, so it is lovely to finally get stated on their pet painting. Three beautiful, predominantly white with splashes of ginger, cats! I love long, thin paintings. I really enjoy doing something that is totally...
Apr 1, 2019
1st of April, happy April Fools day, is that even a thing? Well today is Luke’s 6th birthday. Can’t believe I have had the terror 6 years in June! A complete monster, typical terrier through and through but I love him to bits really. Shame I feel to ill to...
Mar 25, 2019
I think I am going to say this for every month this year, but how can it be nearly April already. I remember when you were a child an the days seemed to drag like you wouldn’t believe. Now I blink and a month has gone, blink twice and it’s the year....
