Apr 14, 2015
With the weekend weather more people seem to be coming out ofhibernation. Five commissions since Friday!So why do people want pet portraits. In my experience there are several key reasons. The bond between animal and human has been strong for thousands of years and...
Apr 3, 2015
Happy Easter everyone. I hope you all have lots of exciting things planned and won’t gorge yourself too much on you chocolate eggs! Things have been very busy over here, still trying to get on top of my pet portraits. It is surprising how quickly things build up...
Mar 23, 2015
Why are the Photographs so Important This is one of the most important things for me, for fairly obvious reasons. The main reason being I can only paint what I see. I need to be able to see the detail in your dogs eye, the stripes on your tabby cat and the...
Mar 21, 2015
Still working hard to catch up but I feel I am making progress now. Apart form the illness it has been an amazing year for commissions. I am so lucky to be able to do pet portraits as my job. I am also hopefully going to get my husband to promote my work more as he is...
Mar 17, 2015
So I have promised certain blog posts but not actually managed them yet, but I promise I will. I know I owe you a post on how to photograph your pet for a portrait, how to draw fur and I am sure there was another one or two. Can you help jog my memory? As the title...
Mar 11, 2015
A very important part of my work is taking photographs of people’ pets for their portraits. Of course I can’t do that for all commissions, but where I can I will. I always ask for lots of photos if people are emailing me so I can get a feel for their...
Mar 1, 2015
I love working for myself. I wouldn’t change a thing about it, apart from when you are ill and the catch up afterward! Normally a couple of days off makes no difference, but nearly two weeks creates a bit of a headache. I have many commissions lined up so I...
Feb 21, 2015
……is not much I am afraid. Flu got me and put me to bed for a week pretty much. I am up and about but still not drawing or painting at full speed. I wanted to talk about, was it mark making with your pencil? It has been so long I need to refresh my...
Feb 5, 2015
It’s going so quickly and I realise I am overdue latest blog post. I really can’t believe how many enquiries for pet portraits I am getting at the moment. Wow! Thank you everyone, I really can’t tell you how much I appreciate your support and of...
Jan 30, 2015
Apologies for anyone waiting for my updates on drawing realistic fur for your pet portraits. It been one of those weeks. I have been not so well and lots of enquiries and just, well you know. We all have these sort of weeks! All sorts of craziness. I thought it was...
