A birder's blog

My name is Sandra Palme, I am a professional pet portrait artist based in the UK (http://www.finepetportraits.co.uk). I'm also a birder and love taking photos of British birds.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Border Collie X pastel portrait started

After several equine portrait commissions, I have now started working on a canine full body study. Below you can see the rough pencil outline of a beautiful Border Collie X called 'Benji'. He'll be drawn in pastels on A3 sized paper.

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Polo anyone? :o)

A few weeks ago, I went to see my first ever live polo match. Mr Charles Burrell of Knepp Castle in West Sussex kindly invited my partner and myself after we'd had a tour of the castle. There's a herd of Exmoor ponies on the estate that I was particularly interested in. I took loads of photos and will also draw the Exmoors at some stage but it was the polo that really impressed me. So here's a charcoal drawing of Mr Burrell on one of his polo ponies.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Double horse portrait finished

The double pastel portrait of 'Cassie', the Dutch Warmblood mare is now finished. The cream coloured background sets her off nicely.

I am now working on an equine charcoal drawing and a canine pastel portrait for a change....more in my next blog post.

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Another update on horse portrait

Here's another update on the double horse portrait (second head study). Getting there!


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