Cane corso painting

Pastel, 16x20in. On this portrait I had to work from a few reference photos to achieve the best exterior appearance. Client was very happy of final effect :)

Hummingbird

Small pastel drawing of a beautiful bird… it is sized ~8x10in. Here I used Canson Colorline black pastel paper. Because it has very fine surface, it is very appropriate for fine details.

A few beagles in pastel

Here is a painting of beagles which I finished couple weeks ago. It was a nice experience portraying 9 dogs together :) Pastel, ~20×26″ I made also a giclée artprint. It’s almost impossible to distinguish it from the original. It is printed on the highest quality paper, Hahnemuhle German Etching Read more…

Beagle painting in progress

Beagles again! I’ve just started new painting with a few beagle faces. I use here a great French (made in Strasbourg) paper Lana for pastels.

Beagle portrait step by step

Recently I’ve again started to take step by step photos during my work. Every break to photograph tends to deconcentrate but I will try do do them more often :) This is beagle portrait I’ve done recently (there will be more beagles soon!). On first three photos I had to Read more…