Bonzo

This is Bonzo and his owner- my lovely Sister-in-law, Sarah. I wanted to give her a drawing of Bonzo as a belated Christmas present and as Bonzo is rather short and barks a lot I thought I’d draw a caricature of him on stilts. The thought balloon says- That’s better! Now I can see who I’m barking at!

Short videos

I’ve put together a couple of short videos to promote my dog and cat portraits (mainly dogs!). One collects together most of the watercolour portraits I’ve done over the last few months and the is of the digital drawings I’ve done on my iPad.  I hope you like them and if you’d like to commission a pet portrait in either style you can text me for info on- paulcemmick@me.com. Prices from a very affordable £50!

Schnauzer Ball Games

Before Christmas, which I spent in Mallorca, I was still being asked for dog portraits even when it got too late for the post from Spain which is a bit unreliable. So my solution was to draw the rough version and finished line art as normal then colour up the drawing digitally and e-Mail it to the client so that it could be printed out before Christmas. Then I could finish the artwork in watercolour as usual and bring it back to the UK with me to post from there. I always supply the original artwork with watercolour added as it’s a lot more special than having a digital image, I think.
So, here’s that process with a drawing of two Schnauzers who love playing with balls!

The digital version

The original rough

The line artwork

The finished artwork

Celeb's dogs

At the end of last year after drawing many dogs and their owners I started wondering about Hollywood stars and their dogs. Here are a few that I found! From the right we have a caricature of one off my favourite actors- Vincent Price and his dog, then next  to him we have Humphrey Bogart with one of his dogs (I think I made its head too big), then we have another favourite actor- Ron Perlman with pooch, then Tony Curtis with a puppy and finally one of the most famous dogs in all of Hollywood Toto from The Wizard of Oz! Apparently Toto was paid more per week than any of the little people who played the Munchkins.

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