This is one of my favourite paintings. I just love these two Bengals. They are so gorgeous and the position they’re curled up really makes me smile. It was such a joy to paint! I just wish I could have kept it.

Toffee and Thistle
14×11 acrylic on board
SOLD

This is a 14×11 inch acrylic painting on board. The background is made up of several layers of paint, the base colour was a warm pink with cooler lilacs over the top. As a result the background changes colour as the lighting changes, going from warm pinks to cool lilacs. Looks amazing but is very hard to photograph!

Here are a couple of close ups of the painting.

This handsome Staffordshire bull terrier dog was sitting outside the supermarket waiting for his master to come out with the shopping. No doubt hoping for a treat! I thought he was very handsome and I loved his profile so I thought I’d try and capture him in paint.

12×9 inches
acrylic on board

Here’s a close up of him

This is Dali and pug dog. I liked the expression on his face as he lays in his basket, keeping an eye out for extra treats! And what huge eyes he has!

This is a 10×8 acrylic painting on board. He is sold.

I painted Dali on a rough surface made with Golden’s mineral fibre paste on board. It’s the first time I tried a painting on this surface and it was really interesting. It’s similar to paper, absorbent and textured. You can see it in the close up detail.

This is the first small painting I’ve been able to do. It’s a 5×7 inch acrylic on board. I have been trying to do some smaller works recently. It’s a good to stretch yourself now and then! Most of them are 10×8 but I thought I’d try a smaller size and see how it went. So I was amazed when this little painting turned out so well!

I even have a little frame for her.

Tigua and his friend the duck. Hot summer days are meant for chilling out with friends, even if they are garden ornaments. :-)

This is a 16×12 acrylic on canvas and it’s sold.

This is Muscat. A pretty Tonkinese. Doesn’t she have the most amazing eyes?

This is a 16×12 acrylic on canvas. It’s sold.

Todays painting is a British Blue cat asleep in her basket. These cats have so much colour in their coats, blue and silver, greens and greys and warm reds and violets depending on the light. So it was a wonderful challenge to capture her using a range of colours, to get the warmth of her coat in the shadows against the blue highlights where the sun makes her fur shine.

12×9 inches
acrylic on board

Add the wonderful colours from the basket and her wonderful pose and I just couldn’t resist her. :-) Here’s a close up detail….

I am working on a series of small paintings and trying to do a painting a day. This is one of the first of those paintings, a boxer dog. I loved her expression, those eyes are full of mischief!

12×9 inches
acrylics on board

I look at that face and think what ever it is you’re up to I know I’m too late! She looks way too pleased with herself. :-)

These two beautiful Siamese cats belong to Gill Barnes. I painted them sleeping together on silk cushions. The photos suffer a little bit from using flash, but it’s been so dark recently that its impossible to get good photos without it. But hopefully you’ll be able to see how beautiful these two boys are.

Here are close up details of the painting.

This is a 16×12 inch acrylic painting on canvas.

This lovely lady is Lili Mei. And yes, she really was sitting in a plate. She is quite a character and we included the bowl of nectarines in the painting because she loved nectarines.

This was a wonderful painting to do. I loved the colours in her coat, the tortie markings in her points and the warm creaminess of her fur. I wanted to capture the warm sun coming in through the window. With soft yellows, warm greens and lilacs, her coat really came to life.

I also had fun with the flowers, using lots of thick, juicy paint to create the flower forms.

This is a 20×16 inch acrylic painting.

One of the Christmas commissions, this is Mitzy and Smudge relaxing on pink and burgundy cushions. Lots of fabulous colour in the painting, the delicious pinks and reds in the background and blues, greens and reds in their fur too.

It was hard to get a good photo of this painting, it’s so dark outside and of course the flash bounces off the paint!

This is a 16×12 inch acrylic painting on paper.

Meet Kimi, a pretty lurcher. In this painting I wanted to challenge myself to paint a long haired dog and to keep the painting loose and free flowing. Kimi has lots of blond hair so she is perfect for this!

I met Kimi in the summer and had taken some photos of her. Of course she’s very fast and I have plans to paint her in motion, but this time one of the close up photos caught my attention. I liked the angle of her head as she looks up and her beautiful eyes so I chose this pose for a study of her. This is a 12×10 inch acrylic painting on board.

Here is a close up…

Doesn’t she have gorgeous eyes!