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First pastel pet portrait!

Posted on by Zara Toms
My nan helped out so much with the wedding; hand making all the table decorations, making the invitations and walking me down the aisle that I wanted to give her something special. I recently added pastels to my material list and I love them! I really wasn't sure when I first attempted the medium. This is my 4th ever attempt and I am so pleased with how they are coming out. A4 (8.3" x 11.7") P...
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Merry Christmas!

Posted on by Zara Toms
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful day whatever your plans are for the festive period. Its a bit of a tradition for me that Christmas Day is spent with my animals. Me and husband are taking the horses for a nice hack through the village - in their Christmas outfits of course :). Jack rocks the reindeer antler well and this is our first Christmas with Chico so he has a...
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My Roxy on Black Paper

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This was my very first pet portrait on black paper. I have always done wildlife subjects and only used grey pencils to create a black and white effect. With Roxy, I wanted to use colours and see how well they showed up. Being black and white herself I really wanted to see how I could make her stand out on the paper. Black fur has so many colours and has so much depth. The blues and purples rea...
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Jack & Chico

Posted on by Zara Toms
This is a lovely moment which I had to take a photo of! Jack has formed a very strong bond with Chico but still lets him know that he is the boss. Chico needs this kind of dominant figure to keep him in his place as he can be a little mischievous and I imagine would get himself in all kinds of trouble! Chico should actually be on a diet.. When he rescued him back in March he was huge! So overw...
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More rain …

Posted on by Zara Toms
I think everyone is sick of the rain now. All it seems to have done since we got back from Scotland is rain. All day, everyday! So the sunshine Sunday made us and my furbabies very happy :). Although today it's returned to awful rain ALL day! The plan when I went to the animals Sunday morning was to tack up Jack and go out for a nice morning hack with Chico in tow. But as you can see from ...
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Laser therapy makes you sleepy <3

Posted on by Zara Toms
Maisey had a follow up laser treatment from her vet friend Shelley. Shelley is veterinary surgeon who has her own business offering acupuncture, laser therapy, herbal medication and much more. Her compassionate, calm and knowledgeable care is second to none. After the laser therapy session Maisey was in a lovely deep sleep. She even slept past her dinner time! Due to Maiseys neurologi...
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My furbabies <3

Posted on by Zara Toms
I thought it would be nice to create more of a blog here on my website. Everything from finished portraits, work in progress shots of whats currently on my easel where possible and then some more social, personal posts like this one of my 3 dogs. So from left to right we have Lexie, Maisey and Roxy. Lexie is a 3 year old Sprocker - the madness of both breeds who for a split second I managed t...
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