Pet Portraits – taking commissions

Pet Portraits – taking commissions

If you’ve been paying attention around here (or on flickr), you’ll be aware of a re-kindling of old techniques for the recent pet and animal portraits. Such efforts are far more rewarding when they are commissioned, so a new website was inevitable! PetPortraitArt.co.uk This currently very modest site will be a focus for promoting pet [...]


Learning through frustration

Learning through frustration

If this morning was any indication, today threatened to thunder uncontrollably down hill into what all you cool internet types would recognise as a Big Fat Über-Fail! Having this week purchased additional gear to make the most of drawing and sketching on-site (as opposed to snapping photographs and sketches then working purely in my “studio”), [...]


Another pet drawing: a cat

I had forgotten the challenge of rendering short, fluffy cat fur in pencil!


It’s been a while, but here’s a dog

  The latest batch of artworks are up on my flickr and artBlog. The most recent (above) is something of a departure from previous work there, and perhaps might surprise a few regular visitors.  Before becoming wrapped in the world of the web, I earned some of my crust as an illustrator. Mostly for publishing [...]


Test pilot and a smoking fish

It’s been a while since I’ve put pen to paper several thousand times and come up with a new drawing. So here are two! Each are 190 mm x 190 mm drawings, pigment ink on acid free cartridge. See the full versions on my flickr stream by clicking one of the images above. Both will [...]