Pastel Dog Painting, Ziggy
February 18, 2012 | 
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Pastel dog painting, Ziggy
After a busy afternoon I have now 99% completed Ziggy’s dog portrait. This was completed using all pastel pencils, no sticks and on velour paper.
I’m now facing a crisis as I really like the effect the velour has when creating a furry subject but am not sure which surface to use in future as fisher 400 ensures a portrait can be completed at a vastly quicker rate.
I have also now purchased some pastelmat and hope it will be a mix of the two surfaces, allowing the speed of work on fisher 400 but with the soft surface hope it also creates a furry like appearance similar to velour, then I’ll be a happy bunny with the best of both worlds!
I am hoping to meet Ziggy’s human brother as technically the portrait was ordered by a son for his father of his father’s dog, if you get my drift, if not don’t worry too much!!!
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Dog Portrait in pastel on velour, Ziggy
A better update than of late, this was taken late afternoon when there was a little natural light and it gives you a better idea of the colours at long last.
As you can see Ziggy is now starting to take shape and his face looks much more real and furry. This is only my 3rd attempt on velour and I think I now have a little more of an idea of what I’m doing, and it’s very similar to use pastels on velour than using coloured pencils as it’s all about building up layers to create depth. This has actually taken quite some time, I’m hoping because I’m still getting to grips with pastels at the moment otherwise the coloured pencils may be coming back out!
Did a little art shopping this week and bought a new set of pastel pencils, liked the odd stabilo carbothello I had as they feel really creamy and thought they could be nice to use on velour plus I ordered some pastelmat so it’s all up in the air at the moment as I’m trying it all out!
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Dog Portraits in pastel, collies Jess and Lassie
This is the finished dog portrait in pastel of Jess and Lassie which was sent off last week to a very pleased client. My photos are never very good, well maybe not the photos but the editing has a lot of improving to do! All the stages for this portrait can be seen on my facebook page or my twitter page
Working on the cat portrait in between other portraits and now started work on Ziggy, the little jack russell king charles spaniel cross shown up on the left hand side. He’s so cute!
full body dog portrait in pastel
And so for a bit of home news, Willow started physio for her arthritis last week and did far better than I thought she would, she’s a bit of a baby and is terrified on the odd occasion when I am not around. Anyway she was a little neurotic to start with but eventually she seemed to calm down, although possibly not enjoy it!
Willow and Stan
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Pet Portraits News
Well it seems my blog has already fallen by the wayside so a few little updates for you all!
Nelson’s dog portrait has been completed and framed and now posted too
Dog portrait of black labrador, Nelson framed in pastel
Plus I started a cat portrait but this has been put to one side for the moment, this is how far I got
pastel cat portrait of Zebee
and now I’m working on a double collie portrait which I will blog later.
I’ve also been working on my pet portraits facebook page and added a few mini pages, I may yet go back to make it a micro site but will need a little more time to do that, something which is in very short supply at the moment. Also I should let you know I am about to run a competition for a free pet portrait on my facebook page so please feel free to take part.
On a more personal note, Willow is now about to start hydrotherapy due to her arthritis. I am glad and sad about this at the same time, glad there are more treatments to help her leg muscles become stronger but also sad that she needs it so young, she is now approaching 3 and a half and is still romping around but the vet has noticed a loss of muscle mass around her left thigh. We start hydro on Thursday, the problem is Willow hates water so I have my fingers crossed she can overcome this. Although she is a big black menacing looking alsatian, she is such a soft coward and a bit of a cry baby, no doubt I’ll be the one soaked through for our efforts!
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Dog Portraits, Nelson the labrador
Pastel dog portraits, Nelson 2
Pastel dog portraits, Nelson 3
I’ve been plodding away with my next dog portrait which is the lovely Nelson who has sadly passed away. This is a larger than life portrait and also my first wet dog painting which is a bit of a change even though it’s the 3rd black dog in a row. Next up is a pair of black and white collies, then a black King Charles Spaniel, best order some more black pastels I think!
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Springador dog portraits, Amber
Amber’s dog portrait is now completed, mounted and ready for packing. Moving onto the next dog portraits…. no rest for the wicked
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Springador dog portraits, Amber
- dog portraits in pastel, Amber 2
dog portraits in pastel, Amber 3
Just a few stages of Amber the springador’s dog portrait, again pastel. I’ve had word back from Amber’s Mum and so far so good! Yippee. Back to it it a while and will hopefully have a further update very soon.
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Pastel cat portraits of Frank
Frank’s portrait is now completed and ready for packing and posting. It’s not often I get to do a cat portrait so it really has been a pleasant change to do. Hopefully some more will come in soon! I’ve also given my website a bit of a make over, lots more to do though so it’s still a work in progress and I’m also about to set up a page for Frank’s cat portrait so everyone can follow the portrait as it was created to see how I work. Am now really loving pastels and the speed they can be used at, still I’m sure after a few more I’ll be pleased to get a pencil portrait for a change!
Cat Portraits in Pastel
Due to the very poor television programmes on I was able to get on great guns with this cat portrait of Frank as the best film on last night was ‘Scary Movie’ so after having seen it several hundred times I just got on with this pastel portrait. I’ve done quite a bit of work underneath the collar and it still needs some tidying up but I’m still amazed by how fast my pet portraits are appearing before my very eyes!
Hope you like it!
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Cat Portrait in pastel
This is the start of a cat portrait of the very pretty Frank, who sadly died last year. His owners wanted a fitting tribute to their beautiful cat and a reminder of him to keep.
Once again this is in pastels on fisher paper and these are the first two early stages
Cat portrait in pastel, Frank
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