Chien noir au pastel sec

I’m sharing with you a portrait from before Christmas. This was a birthday gift for my client’s friend. It’s soft pastel on Hahnemuehle velour paper, 12x16in. Here is during first stage of work, with few pastels I was using at the moment. Here is during first stage of work, with Read more…

Labrador noir

Portrait of black lab which I’ve done earlier this year. Pastel on velour, 10×12″ Work in progress Finished and signed. I used to include year in my signature, but for some years I find it needless. Instead I date my work on the back, it’s really enough :) Moreover, most Read more…

Quelques beagles au 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 tableau en cours

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 etape par etape

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…