Meet Nala, the beautiful bulldog whose portrait I worked on a few weeks ago. The painting is 30×30 cm in size painted with acrylics on stretched fine grain canvas. The painting was commissioned as a birthday present for Nala’s owner by his girlfriend. The reference photograph was very detailed which is always a challenge as…
Category: dog portraits
Joey
This was a small acrylic painting of Joey who was sadly hit by a car. He is missed very much by his owner who just celebrated her birthday last week. Her daughter commissioned this portrait as a keepsake for her mum. The client was travelling abroad at the time of her mum’s birthday so she…
Four Keeshonds Drawing
This was my first time to create a portrait of keeshonds. The client commissioned this drawing of his dogs as a keepsake. They were Ashia, Kody, Rambo and Sky. He was a little concerned about me capturing their likeness as they look so similar, but he was very happy with the result and wrote me…
Darcy
Darcy is a beautiful golden labrador whose portrait I worked on a few weeks ago. She sadly passed away before Christmas. She was thirteen and with her owners from a puppy. The client commissioned her painting as a present for his wife. The painting is 50 x 50 cm in size and painted with acrylics…
Buster, Holly, Casey and Socks
This is a painting I worked on in January for a return client. I created a drawing of three of her dogs a year ago and since then the client rescued Socks. She wanted to include him in the portrait too and asked me to create an acrylic painting this time. The photos she gave…
Jake and Sam
This portrait is another one commissioned for last Christmas. It was of two lovely dogs called Jake, the yorkshire terrier and Sam, the golden labrador. I had some good photos of Jake. Sam sadly passed a long time ago and I only had some small photos of him. The clients were very keen on showing…
Axel and Kaiser
This is a painting of two rottweilers that I completed before Christmas. It was commissioned by their owner as a present for his partner. They are Axel and Kaiser. The painting was a large 50 x 60 cm in size painted with acrylics on fine stretched canvas. The client was very happy with the finished…
Buster
Meet Buster, the beautiful boxer whose portrait I completed before Christmas. The drawing was 20 x 20 cm in size and drawn with coloured pencils on paper. I used Polychromos coloured pencils by Faber-Castell on Fabriano 5 paper with 50percent cotton. The photographs the client provided were very good and we decided to keep the…
Lady and dog painting
I completed this portrait in December. It was a present for the lady pictured in the painting. I worked from one reference photo without making any major changes. The painting is painted in acrylic on fine grain canvas at 30 x 40 cm.
Molly’s painting
This is a painting of Molly, the beautiful springer spaniel whose portrait I worked on before Christmas. I was so busy, I haven’t been updating the blog, so I will try and catch up over the next few weeks. I worked on all sorts of commissions from dog portraits to people portraits, drawings and paintings…