Welcome to my “On The Easel” blog! You can follow the commissioned pet portraits I’m currently working on, all from first line to a completed work of art. I photograph various stages and post them as I’m working in my Studio.
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You can also follow the life I share with my own two dogs Chatt & Ace, my two lovely Border collies. We train and compete in Obedience and Agility :).
This is my latest agility pet portrait in oil. I just completed Jedi’s oil painting painted on Italian Linen canvas in size 24″x16″. Before I started to paint,…
Pet Portrait of Mitzy in Oils Welcome to my last commissioned Newfoundland dog pet portrait of Mitzy. I completed this oil painting just yesterday and it will be…
Milou’s Portrait Some time ago I created my very first dog oil painting clothes commission. This portrait is in size 40x50cm and took me a while to complete….
Pastel Drawing This is one of my latest dog portraits in conté pastel, a Golden Retriever named Goldy. It is a little dog portrait in size 25x30cm drawn…
I recently completed a cat pastel portrait of lovely Solo. This portrait is once of the smaller sizes I have available to commission, 35x25cm. The cat portrait was…
Today I finally went to collect the framed pastel dog portrait of the Pharaoh hound “Rebel”. I took a while this time, however when we wait for something…
This is the final photo of dog portrait Pharaoh hound. As I’ve mentioned before, the size is 24″x18″ jus like the previous Pharaoh hund I painted. This pastel…
I’ve continued working on Rebel’s painting, the pastel portrait Pharaoh hound. Two new stages are available to view here. On the latest stage I was working mainly with…
This is the second pharaoh hound pastel portrait in size 24″x18″ commissioned by the same client, this time of Rebel. A large detailed pastel painting created on Pastelmat…
Yesterday I started up a new painting and sketched up the Scottish Fold cat portrait in oils. Well actually it’s still not an oil painting since I sketch…