A Look Back in Time

   I've been busy working on Thunder's portrait but I don't have a new picture to show because it's still pretty wet. I'll try to get one in the next few days.

  In the mean time I thought it would be fun to show you some of my pet portraits going back a few years. I've weeded through piles of old sketchbooks and canvases just so you could see where it all began, you lucky thing you!


  
  These are the two earliest pet portraits I found in my house (I'm sure there are even earlier ones in storage at my parents house)

Springer Spaniel in pastel from 2004

This is the very first pet that I painted! I'm not positive

 what the date was, but I'm going to guess 2005.

This is a close-up of a Chinese Crested I painted around 2007.

My teacher at the time encouraged me to start painting

commissioned pet portraits after I finished this one.

I was so happy with this and had so much fun painting it

that I really started considering selling them!

This is Bobbin the Havanese. He was my first commissioned pet portrait.

I finished him right around Christmas in 2007.

This is a sketch of my friend's miniature poodle I drew in 2008.

I started a painting based on this but unfortunately it was never finished.

This is one of the first watercolor pet portraits I painted in February 2011

   

   And that brings us back to today! I hope you enjoyed these!

   Also, there's still time to get your pets painted before Christmas, but hurry because I will need their photos before the end of this month!!