We escaped to our house on Fuerteventura to have 5 weeks R&R and chill out after all the stress of the last few months. The sale of Mother-in-Law's flat is still going through (fingers firmly crossed) but its moving very, very slowly. There's no chain, no problems but British Law/Conveyancing is choked with red tape it seems.
Anyway we got back to Whitstable last Friday and since then I've been busy with a birthday commission (finished and despatched on Wednesday), a horse (nearly finished), another RAF portrait - to be finished early next week and also I've started on a course of dentist treatment which I've been dreading. Had 2 root canal treatments in the week and another scheduled for Wednesday afternoon ... then the real fun begins with some jawbone augmentation which will mean up to 12 months on a soft food diet..... but its got to be done so no point worrying too much.
This little lady is a Labradoodle and she was a birthday gift for my client's husband. I prefer to portray dogs with a ¾ profile, or at least a slight turn of the face to avoid foreshortening the face/muzzle. But this sort of 'full front' pose was what my client wanted
Sorry, this was a quick photo and I didn't anchor the pastelmat to my drawing board, or crop the edges so its curled a bit.
I've used pastels (soft) with pastel pencils for finer detail on grey Pastelmat paper.
Anyway we got back to Whitstable last Friday and since then I've been busy with a birthday commission (finished and despatched on Wednesday), a horse (nearly finished), another RAF portrait - to be finished early next week and also I've started on a course of dentist treatment which I've been dreading. Had 2 root canal treatments in the week and another scheduled for Wednesday afternoon ... then the real fun begins with some jawbone augmentation which will mean up to 12 months on a soft food diet..... but its got to be done so no point worrying too much.
This little lady is a Labradoodle and she was a birthday gift for my client's husband. I prefer to portray dogs with a ¾ profile, or at least a slight turn of the face to avoid foreshortening the face/muzzle. But this sort of 'full front' pose was what my client wanted
Sorry, this was a quick photo and I didn't anchor the pastelmat to my drawing board, or crop the edges so its curled a bit.
I've used pastels (soft) with pastel pencils for finer detail on grey Pastelmat paper.
Welcome home. Sorry about your jaw reconstruction. Rather you than me thank you. I love this little labradoodle. Cute little dog.
ReplyDeleteooh looks so soft and fluffy :)
ReplyDeletegood luck with your jaw and hope it heals fast. stock up on soup, yogurt and mashable foods :)