Latest dog portrait

I was working on this commissioned portrait for most of the past month. I remembered to take one progress photo this time:

Here you can see the light pencil drawing, and the initial shading with blue pencil. The left eye and ear area is more or less finished, only needing a few touch ups at the end. All the long fur is taking longer than planned but I'm liking the result.


And here is the finished drawing. It's 8 x 10 inches and was done using coloured pencils.

Selected

It got in Hull Ferens open exhibition!
:-D

Finished!

David Oakley - 12 x 16", oil on panel.

Finished it on Saturday, then took it straight off to Hull to enter it in the open exhibition. Should hear whether it has got in or not in the next week or so.

Spaniel Dog Portrait

Tyson, 8 x 10", coloured pencil.

Here's my first finished portrait of 2009. I got quite immersed in this one and forgot to take any in progress photographs. Spaniels' ears feel like the most complicated and time consuming thing I ever have to draw, but I really like how these have turned out. The owner gave me a really nice clear reference photo as well so that makes any portrait much easier to draw.

Also, Dave is so nearly finished, it's days away. And the sculpture I started of Polly is going along nicely. My dad made me a pair of wooden callipers the other day which are so useful I don't know how I was managing without them. Well, I wasn't really managing - the eyes were too close together and the head was too narrow, but I did have the length of the head totally perfect which I was very pleased about.

Polly

- She never stays still long enough.



- I've just started a clay head of her.

I got this portrait in this year's Scunthorpe open exhibition. Can't believe it's two years since I put the self portrait I did in there. Time passed so quickly I totally forgot about entering last year. Above is a better photo than I took of it before.

s.p.

Yesterday I did this quick self portrait from the mirror in charcoal and chalk, A3 size. It's not quite right but I've overworked it enough I think. I need to work on keeping it simple and less stodgy.