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…
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…
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…
This is the Boston terrier oil portrait in progress, currently on my easel. The size is 12″x12″, painted on professionally gallery-wrapped Italian linen canvas. Her namne is Bella….
These are next stages of the Pharaoh hound pastel portrait. I’ve been working 5 days altogether on this portrait until now and since I also video the progress…
Yesterday I started up a new painting, so this is the sketching stage of Pharaoh hound pastel portrait in progress. His name was Emerson and it is commissioned…