January brings the snow

Well I am sure most of us in the UK have seen some snow over the past day or so, so I thought my little watercolour was very apt. My intention is to produce a calender of my artwork based on the nursery rhyme 'January brings the snow' each month will have a painting to depict the rhyme.

I was inspired by a lovely photograph on the Paint my Photo website
https://pmp-art.com/freda-austin-nichols/gallery/84542/beginning-of-a-snowman

I hope you like this painting and the ones to follow. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments box and I will be glad to answer them.

A few more pet portraits

As I haven't posted for a while, I thought I would share a few portraits that have kept me busy since last time. Most of them were commissioned for gifts and I jope you like them.

As you can see there are quite a few and I still have more to do.  All my portraits are in pastel on Hahnemule velour paper. I use Sennelier, Rembrandt, Unison pastels and Derwent pastel pencils.

Thank you kindly for visiting today and please feel free to comment.

Portrait of Ruby

This is Ruby the Labradoodle.  I was commissioned to paint her porteait by one of my dog groomers.  I absolutely loved painying her.

This piece was completed using soft pastels on Hahnemoule Velour paper.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoy looking at my artwork.

A selection of pastel portraits and other projects

You may have noticed that I have changed the name of my blog and that is because I wanted a name that reflects what I do.

For the past few weeks I have been working on a few pastel pet portraits to give as gift to their owners and a few other projects, here is a selection:

I also had a try at painting my youngest grandaughter's portrait, although I am quite pleased with my first attempt, I think I will stick to painting animals.

Other projects:

Pastel butterfly

Pen and Charcoal Cottage

Deer in Coloured Pencil 

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope yoh like my artwork

More commissioned pet portraits

Here is a selection of pastel pet portraits that I have been commissioned to do.

I wasn't pleased with how this Husky turned out so. .....

                            .............. I painted another one

Thank you for dropping in for a visit, I hope you like my artwork, if so, please leave a comment. Many thanks x

Weekend pastel pet portraits

Hello everyone. I spent a very pleasant weekend painting these portraits in pastel.  

This is Sam, a female Labrador/Retriever who we used to look after when the owners went on holiday

These 2 cheeky monkeys are Basil and Peppa, they are our friends' dogs. I have painted this one as a gift for them.

Both paintings were created using a mixture of:

Sennelier soft pastels

Inscribe soft pastels

Derwent pastel pencils

On

Hanhemuhle Velour Pastel paper

Thank you for visiting

2 more pastel pet portraits

Hello again. I thought I would share two more pastel pet portraits that I completed yesterday.  The first one is a commissioned Spaniel portrait and the second one is a painting of my beloved Border Collie,  Murphy, who passed away 6 years ago. I hope you like them: