Apr 29, 2017
I love doing shows. Don’t get me wrong they are hard work, but after my website it is where I often get more commissions for pet portraits and I also get sell my range of mugs, coasters and prints. I tend to show mainly my watercolours as they really stand out...
Apr 28, 2017
Royston is a beautiful GSD. I have been asked to paint him running across the beach. This is where the beauty of commission a pet portrait over just have a photograph printed is realised. Royston is wearing a harness, but my client wants that removed, a very fiddly...
Apr 28, 2017
My current commission, as I mentioned yesterday is a GSD running across the beach. I love the sea side and I often get asked to put beach scenes in my pet portraits. I have some horse portraits featuring the sea. This one below was one of my favourites. This beautiful...
Apr 27, 2017
I have an exciting few months coming up. Bookings for pet portraits are going well, with some exciting commissions coming up. One being an eventing horse, I can’t reveal his name as it is a surprise and I don’t want to give the game away. I have plenty of...
Apr 27, 2017
This was an exciting commission for me as I haven’t painted an Old English Sheepdog before. My client wanted to surprise her brother as he recently lost this handsome chap. Sourcing photographs for the commission were proving a problem as we needed to keep this...
Apr 26, 2017
I am very lucky I get to do what I do. Being an artist has always been a dream of mine and now I have been an internationally selling pet portrait artist for over 10 years! Working from home takes some discipline, far to many distractions, such as the television,...
Apr 26, 2017
This beautiful cat, ‘Didz’, is primarily a house bound cat. However his owner wanted a cat portrait but set in the wild as a birthday present for his wife. Working together to find the right solution for his pet portrait requirements I showed him a range of different...
Apr 24, 2017
‘Triple headers’ (three animal heads in one painting) are often a real challenge – this horse commission being no exception. Receiving a picture of all three horses together just doesn’t happen mainly because it’s too difficult for the owner to get...
Apr 19, 2017
It’s always sad when I’m asked to produce a pet portrait of a pet that has died leaving the owner sad. We still miss our beloved dog ‘Charlie’ and he left us 15 years ago. So I understood the feelings of the owner of Chester, a bridge baby, who wanted a...
Apr 19, 2017
Framing your pet portrait is a vital part of the painting. It is almost as important as the portrait as it finishes you portrait, you could easily ruin your pet portrait by choosing a bad frame for it. I always advise people to choose a frame that compliments their...
