Sep 9, 2018
It’s not often you get asked to be involved in such a wonderful experience as I have been asked to be involved in….. And it’s not pet portrait related. You will never guess what it is…….you can try but I promise you won’t! It...
Sep 4, 2018
Yes end of an era. My daughter is no longer a primary school pupil and has started secondary school. I feel so nervous for her, but off she went in her slightly too big uniform and caught the bus. I have been dreading this day. The growing up really begins now!...
Aug 28, 2018
I don’t really often take days off, and we didn’t go away so I am always doing something with regards to the pet portraits, but I have taken it easier of the last few days with it being bank holiday and wanting to spend some time with the kids before they...
Aug 20, 2018
The equine portraits have been lacking this year, it has most definitely been my best year for cat portraits though. This is Violet. I am really enjoying finally getting pencils into a horse portrait. I started her Saturday. Sunday I had the day off and took the kids...
Aug 17, 2018
I occasionally get the chance to do wildlife. Yesterday my mojo and desire to paint pet portraits was a bit lacking so I decided to revisit an old wildlife piece I had started two years ago! That shows you how busy it gets with the pet portraits! I haven’t had a...
Aug 12, 2018
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...
Aug 11, 2018
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...
Aug 9, 2018
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...
Aug 7, 2018
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...
Aug 5, 2018
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...
