Pet Portraits

I have just updated my website www.suesmithart.com, with a new prices page for commissions. I am taking orders now for Christmas, please take a look. You can contact me at suebellhill@gmail.com.

Biscuit finished

Here he is finished. I might tweak a few things here and there, but it is essentially done. I just need to think of a title.

Biscuit WIP update 3

I have had a bit more time today, so managed to get quite a bit more done.

Biscuit WIP update 2

Here is an update, I haven't had much time to spend on this, and there are still things that need fixing, but it'll get there.

Biscuit WIP update

Here is an update. Now it's on the screen I can see all that's wrong with it. His coat colour is proving very difficult, especially in the shadow areas. He is a very pale ginger tabby with a white bib and paws and white on his face (a tuxedo cat).

Biscuit WIP

Prismacolor on Sennelier pastelboard

I've started a new piece in coloured pencil. This is one of my cats, Biscuit sitting on the fence between our and our neighbours' gardens, where he likes to sit and torment the neighbours' dog while they are out. She can see him through their kitchen window and goes mad while he sits smugly and safely out of reach.

More cats

Now that I have managed to add the Imagekind button (thanks to the very kind help of Katherine Tyrrell of Making a Mark), you can see some more cat pictures.

Or you can just see them here.

Harvey
Coloured Pencil
copyright Sue Smith
2009





Tabby Cat
Coloured Pencil
Copyright Sue Smith
2007

Snow Leopard
Coloured Pencil
Copyright Sue Smith
2007

"Snow Leopard" won The Leisure Painter Award For Newcomers to Coloured Pencil in the 2008 UKCPS Keswick Exhibition.

Cat Sketches

Pen and wash in Winsor and Newton sketchbook

These are a few pages from my sketchbook, introducing Tom, (the black scruffy one), and Biscuit, the cute ginger and white one. No, I am not responsible for their names, they were both adopted.

As you can see, they like to sleep a lot.















Pen and wash in Winsor and Newton sketchbook


Pigment liner