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Here you will find up to the minute news from the studio and see the pet portraits we are currently working on. You are more than welcome to contact us at any time!
petportraitartist@gmail.comTraditional Techniques
All of the paintings you see on our blog are commissions from clients worldwide. We traditionally hand paint or draw every pet portrait ourselves. There's no digital trickery involved! We start by drawing out the image by hand and follow on with painting in oils, pastel or in pencil and you can follow each stage we make here on the blog on a daily basis.Art Tution
If you would like information about our online distance learning courses in association with the London Art College, visit our tutoring page here
Art CoursesDraw Faeries Book
My first book is published! Its a Learn to Draw Faeries book published by New Holland Publishers. If you watch the video above I go through a few pages showing the content from creating the characters, learning to draw, working with mediums, looking at dark fairies, flower fairies, to creating digital artwork. It can be purchased from loads of places from Borders, Barnes & Noble to Waterstones!
Feb
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Final Scan Spinone Portrait – The Paintings Creation
February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is the final scan of the portrait of Duncan and Wilson, the two Italian Spinones, which will now be wending its way off to the USA so the client can present it to his wife on Valentines day. What a wonderful gift to receive. The painting of Duncan and Wilson shows the special bond they had between them and I think gives a beautiful, contented feeling which often simple head portraits don’t give. This is more of a painting than a portrait and it was a very special one to paint and I know that this painting will be cherished for a very long time.
A quick note about valentines day, if there are clients who are trying to think of what to give as a gift and might like to give a painting or a portrait, we do offer valentine gift vouchers to make their day special. Just drop us a line to find out more.
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Feb
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Ammy – a sad goodbye….
February 3, 2010 | 18 Comments
We have had to say our final goodbyes to Amram, the time came for us to make the decision to let him go, we think he was about 13. It was a very difficult and we know that we were so lucky to have him this long as we thought we were going to loose him last year. You can read in this blog post last April, he had quite a few trips to the vet and came very close to not being with us, but he pulled through unexpectedly. He was a strong little thing. The illness took its toll though and he had difficulty breathing towards the end, he slowed down an awful lot, although we did see him catch his last mouse at Christmas!
You can see him in the picture below, we spoilt him at Christmas and he enjoyed his treats and toys, our neighbour bought the ones you can see in the photo and he loved them. He was always an opportunist, he was always on the look out for what else he could have…particularly while our backs were turned! The photo below shows him at Christmas keeping a watchful eye over the turkey on the worktop! We have so many funny stories of his antics and so many things that make us smile. Many times we grumbled his name under our breath, he’s got into a lot of mischief over the years, but we always smile about it as he was a clever little cat, he never missed a trick!
He was the prettiest cat we have ever owned, many people thought he was a little girl he was so pretty…particularly as I gave him a nice pink collar and tag with mice on : ) We feel privileged to have been able to share our lives with him for the last 5 years and he is now resting underneath the fruit trees at the bottom of the garden. We will never forget our Amram.
Feb
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Spinone Oil Pet Portrait – Stage two
February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Jan
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Spinone Portrait in Oils – stage one
January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Jan
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Final Scan of Pencil Drawing Pet Portraits
January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This portrait is for a returning customer, I completed a portrait of Rhodes last year in oils and also a pencil drawing of their family’s dearly departed Newfoundland. This portrait will be sent over seas to Australia next week and I’m looking forward to seeing what it looks like hanging on their walls in a slightly warmer climate than the UK!
Jan
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The Final Scan of Collie Jack – The Paintings creation
January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Here is the final scan of Jack, an oil painting on linen canvas 12 x 10. You should be able to view the entire paintings creation in the flash sideshow below. As you can see I have rearranged the client list into months so that its easier for us to organise. We are a little behind in our schedule, so Duncan and Wilson are in the process of being painted as its for a Valentines gift which really isn’t too far away! The portrait is going off to America so it needs a week in transit, so hopefully I will be posting the first 3 or 4 stages tomorrow. Samantha has completed her first stage of drying and hopefully will be back on the easel mid week next week.
We have been offline for a couple of days as we have been reformatting our computers. We have upgraded to windows 7 and so far we love it. Much better and an improvement over Vista. It snowed here yesterday too, we have about an inch outside, but its quite sunny today so I am sure it will melt in a few days.
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Jan
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Next stages to Jack, the collie in Oils
January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This portrait was started way back at the beginning of January, you might have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the start of it. I will hopefully be adding the final stage tomorrow, so ill post it in flash format so that you can see all the stages together and see how it started from the initial line drawing to the final strokes : )
Jan
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Final of Charlie in Oils on Canvas – The Paintings Creation.
January 25, 2010 | 5 Comments
Charlie is now complete! The client was thrilled with the final image and said “…..The final result is brilliant. Please go ahead as it is as there is nothing I would want to change – it’s just perfect! Can’t wait to give it to mum and see her reaction – I know we are going to be keeping the tissues flowing!!…..” Im just about to pack up the portrait and send it in the post just in time for the birthday at the end of January.
I have completed a pencil drawing of the New Foundland which is also for a birthday deadline and I will blog that as soon as its scanned!
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Jan
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Next stage to the dog portrait in oils
January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is the next stage to the portrait of Charlie, I should have a final photo to blog tomorrow.
Jan
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Next Stage of Charlie!
January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is the next stage of Charlies pet portrait, the light has reflected on the surface of the painting unfortunatley so I will make sure the next photo is a little clearer!
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