These two were a little challenging because sadly the pets were no longer with us so I had limited subject matter to work with. The dog, Mo...

How cute is this little girl? She's carefully cleaning her paw. Or is she? Caption competition?   Sometimes I have to wait to after Chri...

  The tree is up, I'm smashing chestnuts and school's out. Everything's looking and smelling very festive. But what's that o...

What a beautiful gentle old girl is Cathy the retired racing greyhound. She belongs to a friend of mine, and I was asked to draw her out of ...

I A friend recently commented on the challenges of drawing black dogs! I've done a few, and a glossy black cat, and here is one I tackle...

In March, an old dog called Barney came to live at The Raggy Rat ... His forelimbs are almost parting company from his body and his wood woo...

Working on this portrait involved tilting the head of the dog, removing his lead, back and shoulder, and adding in some of his neck and ches...

A Yorkshire terrier from down the road ... And she's been given the Raggy Rat treatment in time for Mother's Day!

This big beautiful boy recently passed away and I was asked to produce a portrait from this photograph ... But as you can see, Billy's l...

Trixie has been photographed indoors using a 'flash'. It makes her fur shine, but her eyes have become very reflective! So while ske...

This is Peanut who was fun to draw with so many colours to build up the rich tan! As you can see from Peanut's photo one of the eyes was...

Look at this handsome chap!  This year I am doing lots of pet portraits again, as we near Christmas. I always start by mapping in with black...

Here is a dog called Max. He has quite a lot of Alsatian in his barky self... 5 year old Mary sat next to me and had a go with pencils and f...

These two pics show colour build-up on this lovely boy, he was a pleasure to create and the portrait made his owners very happy as Bailey-Do...

Here are some WIP drawings on a characterful dog I just produced for a valentines present! The starting out I find difficult, as I only see ...

A happy new year to you and all the best for 2013. Any resolutions? I am going to try and do the daily blog again xxxx

How I love to draw ....here i am building up colour and depth on a black, curly haired dog...some of you know that black dogs are not easy t...

The basic outline - pippin's eye were flashed-orange in the photograph, so i quickly fill the pupils in black, with an added white highl...