May 27, 2017
I love getting horse portraits, and I am not sure I have blogged about these three. My client sent me 6 or 7 photos to work from and I had to tailor it quite a lot to get them working together. The left hand horse had to be darkened has he was in bright sunlight and...
May 26, 2017
I am taking 5 days off so I have been winding down from the pet portraits a little today. My kids are on half term so I want to spend some quality time with them and recharge my batteries. It has been rather hot today which has slowed down the working process, not...
May 25, 2017
I met Harriet and her beautiful dog Plum last night for a photoshoot, for a potential pet portrait. I really hope she goes ahead as Plum is beautiful. A working lab of 5 years she had a lovely silky black coat and a gentle nature. Harriet was keen to make sure we got...
May 24, 2017
I have been really busy this last two weeks. I have a 5 day break coming up and I had quite few pet portraits to be completed just before, whilst I was away and just after I get back so I have had to work really hard to not let anyone down. I am getting enquires for...
May 20, 2017
Last week I was working on Albie’s portrait. I. Had hoped he would have been in his forever home by now but due to the post office system not recognising the delivery address I had to bring back home until my client decided on an alternative address. I am hoping...
May 19, 2017
I really wouldn’t blame you if you thought, not much unusual can go wrong being a pet portrait artist, and to be fair 90% of the time it just ticks along quite happily. The most unusual thing normally is perhaps the request to paint an exotic breed, and even...
May 16, 2017
Albie, was my subject today. I have manged to work well on him. It has taken a good 10 hours work but his portrait is complete. I have never drawn a Shar Pei before, but I loved capturing all his wrinkles and almost little frown! It is a small painting, 10×8...
May 15, 2017
I have to say, some days I find it really hard to motivate myself. I have had a really lovely weekend with some fabulous friends and miserable Mondays are really not the way to start the week after such a great weekend. We sat around the fire pit until the small hours...
May 12, 2017
Yesterday I worked some more on the double dog portrait, I shall take a photo when it brightens up and upload it so you can see. I am really pleased with how it is coming along. Bailey’s owner came to pick up his portrait and he was delighted. I always get...
May 10, 2017
Today has been a bit of a mixed bag. I have put together a couple of mock ups for some future pet portraits, one being for December, so be warned Christmas commissions are coming in already. I have had to chase down Digby’s portrait which we feared had gone...
