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Pet Portraits

Starting on Louis

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Zara Toms

Louis is the second portrait that is along with yesterdays post of Poppy. This pair of pastel portraits are surprise gifts but they have now been given to their owners so I have the go ahead to share :). Louis has soooo many curls and you all know how much I love that!
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Work in progress

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Zara Toms

This portrait of Poppy has now been given to her owner as a surprise gift. Sadly, Poppy crossed over rainbow bridge and the portrait was commissioned as a way for them to remember her by. Something special to keep forever. I thought I would share the work in progress first before revealing the finished piece :). 8" x 10" pastel drawing
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Rolo’s video :)

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Zara Toms

https://youtu.be/s-FO0EJ93PA Music by bensound Artistic license..I really enjoyed working on this pastel drawing of Rolo. The beautiful reference photograph I had made such a difference. I did use some artistic license with this piece. There was a large amount of blurred bluebells all over his chest and in the artwork I wanted to show all his beautiful curls. So I still included the hint of t...
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Rolo is mounted :)

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Zara Toms

As you may have seen I have all my portraits professionally mounted by my framer. These can be any sizes as mentioned in a previous blog post. Rolo here was mounted to 12" x 16". A4 (8.3" x 11.7") Pastel Drawing mounted to 12" x 16"
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Cash video :D

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Zara Toms

Watch his smiley face come to life in the full time lapse video. I am super busy with commissions and I have some really beautiful pets to share with you when they have been given as the surprise gifts! https://youtu.be/1-9mVtEZSYY Music by bensound
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Meet Rolo :D

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Zara Toms

SUPER CUTE ALERT!! I had the pleasure of meeting Rolo yesterday and I can confirm he is just as cute in person as he is in the reference photo I had for this portrait. His owner Frank is a keen photographer who takes some truly fantastic photos. He captured this moment of Rolo sat in the Bluebells perfectly. I was very excited to start it as soon as I was asked <3 The full time lapse v...
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Harley’s Video!

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Zara Toms

Here is the full video of Harley's pastel portrait :). I absolutely LOVED working on his smiley face with all those stunning curls. Those chocolate colours were so much fun to capture. https://youtu.be/unFMJbobI4k Well over 100 other videos on my YouTube channel :D
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Ruby, Roxy, Tia and Teddy mounted!

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Zara Toms

Why do I mount all my pieces?It's only since I started offering pastel portraits that I decided to get my framer to mount all of my portraits. Pastels require a special mount so I knew this was something I wanted to include as part of the portrait just for my piece of mind that all pastel artwork will all be protected as they ideally should. I then got much more satisfaction seeing them going off...
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Meet Cash

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Zara Toms

I can now share with you the portrait I finished last week of Cash. A very smiley, super cute Jack Russel. That tongue! Being local, I was able to have the pleasure of hand delivering this portrait to his mum :).
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Ranger’s Video :D

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Zara Toms

As mentioned on yesterdays post here is the full time lapse video of Ranger's pastel drawing. I have had such a huge response to this portrait over on my social media and I thank everyone who commented, liked and shared the post :D https://youtu.be/sWc_1lyA0kk Music by bensound
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