Pet Portraits and Wildlife Art

Kay and the Koala are now framed as this is a collected portrait...



...And Dibble and Fifi have been put into a double mount to be posted ready for Christmas.
Job done.



Now I have to get back to the artwork, I have still a few which I have not even started yet, usually I draw things out a little ahead of myself when I get 5 minutes spare and when I need a break from the current portrait I am working on, unfortunately I'm yet again behind so this weekend is going to be a hard slog to get it back on track, the problem is I now have two rolls of wire to put into my rabbit pens to do them up and I should also be doing that otherwise new recruit Rex the rabbit will be out from underneath the wire, he's a fanatical digger and yearns to escape.

I've now completed this portrait and all that remains is for it to be framed and mounted. It's been a rotten day weather wise, we got wet at work and it was even too wet for the chickens to come out in the garden today, thay all had to stay shut up. My rabbits sulked a bit, they spent the day in the shed which is none too interesting when you have holes to dig.

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And now the koala is beginning to appear!

More work has been carried out on Kay and the Koala portrait. I'm working on the bib now which is very patterened and complicated. Yet again I've forgotten to work out how long I spend on a portrait but I think this has taken about 6 or 7 hours so far. For the first stage see here

So far I'm really pleased with this, I think I've managed to get quite a good likeness to Kay and have captured most of her features. At this point I have only worked over the area once and will probably go back over each feature many times to ensure no details are missed out.

AND THE GOOD NEWS

Both missing parcels of portraits have now turned up, Charlie the competition winner arrived with his owner Keren this morning and Mickey's portraits were found at a sorting office a bit earlier in the week. Hooray!!!

OUT IN THE GARDEN

Been a rabbit and guinea pig clean out day today. All those cages, what a nightmare!!!And remember these two ducks? Haven't they grown, they refuse to join the other ducks and doze in their chosen spot all day. Just about to watch the rugby (Wales v South Africa) so will be back at work on portraits, hopefully more updates tomorrow

As part of belonging to the West Gloucestershire Art Society (WGAS) we regularly put on exhibitions around the Forest of Dean, and today we exhibited at Staunton Village Hall. This exhibition will take place for the next three weekends and today I had to steward there.

Kaitlin, who is in a portrait I have on display came to visit with her Mum and Dad and kindly posed by her portrait.

Kaitlin has visited the animals and pets at my house several times and her Dad gives me bread for the ducks, we have arranged a feeding time and Kaitlin is coming to visit soon and feed all the ducks and geese, she is quite taken with my rabbits and hopes to get her own soon.

Anyway it's sunny now so I'm off out in the garden with my rabbits and guinea pigs and no doubt I'll have more photos and details to update later.

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