It's been a while since I posted any pet portraits. This is one I was commissioned to do in October for a birthday present in November so, as it's been received I think it's now okay to blog about it.
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| 'Emma' - acrylic on box canvas 5x5 inch |
Emma is a gorgeous little King Charles Spaniel who lives in Florida and who has been suffering from health problems for a while. Hopefully after some serious surgery she is now on the mend.
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| The real Emma. |
I've just finished another pet portrait, this time for a Christmas gift and started on the last one I'll be doing this side of Christmas. I've still got a few to do in the New Year but as they aren't gifts, there isn't an immediate rush on them so once I finish the next one, I plan to start a piece to enter into next year's Wildlife Artist of the Year competition. I've got an idea of what I want to do but whether I can translate that from thought to canvas remains to be seen!
In other news, I noticed on Facebook a couple of days ago that a gallery called the Schoolhouse Dornie is holding an exhibition called Colour. It already started before I found out about it but I messaged them asking if it might be a yearly thing as I was too late for this one.
Anyway the upshot was that I was invited to submit some work anyway as it runs right through to January so I have 4 landscapes winging their way to the Kyle of Lochalsh today. The idea was that the pieces were to be no larger than 20cm x 20cm so I'm sending some of the little landscapes I did earlier in the year. One of my recently completed pieces is 30 x 40cm and I'd sent an image of that before I knew the size limits so I was chuffed when I was asked to send it anyway to join part of a larger exhibition in their main gallery as she loved the vibrancy of it! I haven't posted that one yet but if I've piqued your curiosity then please do pop back next week to see what it looks like!
Anyway the upshot was that I was invited to submit some work anyway as it runs right through to January so I have 4 landscapes winging their way to the Kyle of Lochalsh today. The idea was that the pieces were to be no larger than 20cm x 20cm so I'm sending some of the little landscapes I did earlier in the year. One of my recently completed pieces is 30 x 40cm and I'd sent an image of that before I knew the size limits so I was chuffed when I was asked to send it anyway to join part of a larger exhibition in their main gallery as she loved the vibrancy of it! I haven't posted that one yet but if I've piqued your curiosity then please do pop back next week to see what it looks like!
