A busy few days doing what I love

Hello everyone. Over the past few days I have been working on various pastel pet portraits, a challenge card (docrafts) and a challenge painting (pure watercolour) all things I really love doing.  So here they are:

This top pastel portrait is my stepson's puppy, Missy.  I have painted her as a gift for him 

 These two little cuties are for a commission

This is the card I made for a challenge over on Docrafts
https://www.docrafts.com/Projects/new-roald-dahl-challenge/4095796

This final piece is the painting for the challenge on the Pure Watercolour website  http://www.purewatercolour.com

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This little piggy is going to the groomer

The owner of the dog groomers where some of my paintings are displayed asked me to paint a portrait of her pot bellied pig, Winston,  who sadly passed away last year. Having never painted a pig before I found it quite challenging but hopefully it will pass.

So here's Winston

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More pastel pets

Here are 3 more pastel paintings I gave completed this week

This one of the Red Setter is now on display at my local dog groomers along with 3 of my previous paintings. Well we all have to start somewhere lol

This one is of one of my own handsome boys, Sebastien

This one of a Jack Russell cross is a commissioned piece which the customer is going to give the dog's owner for Christmas

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Monday's pastel painting

This is Foxy,  a little chihuahua cross and such a cute little lady. We used to look after her until her owner decided to give her away to someone else.

This was also a challenge set by my husband to test my skills at painting on A5 paper.  Think I rose to that one, don't you?

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Today's makes

Commissioned card featuring cross stitching by my good friend. The order was for a tri colour Cavalier King Charles Spaniel so I decided to turn the card into a kennel.

I used:

 card from my stash

X Cut letter dies

Stamps from stash

Embroidery thread for bows

I painted this pretty girl in pastel this afternoon.  She was a challenge set by my husband. Breeze is another dog we occasionally look after and my husband wanted to see if I could rise to his challenge of capturing her beauty. Well what do you think? 

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Castro the Havanese

This is a little dog that we are looking after for the weekend. He is called Castro and he is a Havanese. He is such a sweet natured little fellow with a cheeky face. I took such a lovely photograph of him yesterday which inspired me to paint him in pastels. I hope you like it.

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2 more pet pastel portraits

There's no stopping me now tehe! Here are 2 more beautiful pets preserved in pastels.
This first one is my friend's cat who she sadly had to send over rainbow bridge ladt week. She had a favourite photograph of her, so I decided to paint a copy if it in pastel for her.  I haven't given it to her yet ad I want to frame it.

 This second pastel painting is a commissioned one. I was asked by a husband and wife who attend my local Slimming World group to paint their dog's portrait.  Yet again I havdn't given it to them yet, so I am hoping they will approve of my effort.

I used my usual Hahnemuhle pastel paper,  Sennelier soft pastels, Derwent pastel pencils and Inscribe soft pastels.

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