Tag: painting

Labrador Family Portraits

I’ve recently been commissioned to paint a couple of members of my Labrador’s family. Portrait of Black Labrador, Breagha In 2019, the first of the Labrador family portraits, my Lab’s sister, Breagha, was completed. Breagha’s painting information Medium: Watercolour Size: 10″ x 10″ / 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm Portrait of Black Labrador, Kara The […]

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Labrador Painting: Logie At Achmelvich Bay

Last year I started a portrait of my Labrador based on a photo of him at Achmelvich Bay in the north west of Scotland. It was a beautiful morning when we visited in March 2018. Blue sky, turquoise sea, and white sands. It could have been a far off tropical paradise, if it wasn’t for […]

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Finished Painting: Young Lion

In May I blogged the work-in-progress photos of the young lion painting I was working on, Young Lion Painting in Progress, and today I have finally finished it. Lions are a new painting subject, giving me the opportunity to study the fur pattern and colouring closely for the first time. The tree bark was also […]

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Young Lion painting in progress

I recently started work on a painting of a young lion relaxing in a tree. I’ll post more updates as I work on it. Here’s some photos of progress so far. About the painting Medium: Acrylics Paper: Heavyweight Bockingford watercolour paper Size: A3, 16.5″ x 11.7″ / 420 mm x 297 mm Reference photo: Laura […]

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A Labrador painting in progress

Earlier in the year I completed a portrait of my Labrador, Logie. As I now have this blog, I wanted to share with you the work in progress photos I took as I went along. The portrait is 20″ x 20″ on box canvas and painted in acrylics. Not easy to get a photo of […]

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