Thread: How a Maine Coon pastel portrait is created.

Wow. I am in awe of your skills, drawing a straight line gives me problems!!!!

The eyes are amazing.

That's absolutely beautiful, what an amazing gift you have

What an amazing picture and it is wonderful to see just how it goes from being a simple line drawing to a full on portrait.

Do you have any more like that you could share?

Louise

Thank you everyone. I thought it would be nice to show you how it all progresses. When I do a portrait I email the progress pics to my clients so that they can see how their portrait is created. A few who have commissioned a portrait as a gift have printed the progress pics off and presented them with the finished portrait to the recipient so that they can see how the portrait was created.

Louise, I've not got anymore MC progress pics but have plenty of other pets(mainly dogs) if you want to see some of those.

Stunning!

I feel you'll be a popular person in the next few weeks!

Lovely painting you've got a real talent there!! Do you paint all sorts of pets or mostly cats?

Dave draws a lot and keeps photoshopping pictures of Teddy now...I may add his most recent to the forum!

Originally Posted by Stacey

Lovely painting you've got a real talent there!! Do you paint all sorts of pets or mostly cats?

Dave draws a lot and keeps photoshopping pictures of Teddy now...I may add his most recent to the forum!

Thanks Stacey. To be honest I do mainly dogs. More dog owners seem to want a portrait memory/keepsake of thier pet than cat owners for some reason. I have done other pics including Classic cars.

Stunning. That really is a gift you have there, and thank so much for sharing the process, it's fascinating how quickly the picture takes shape. Beautiful. How long would a picture like that typically take you?

Hi they are lovely pastels, by coincedence I've been trying to get painting again, after a really long lay off and have to say that I found it quite hard to get the shape of the cat and the coat pattern even half right... I'll have to post some of my pix, we could start a gallery!

Originally Posted by FreyjaRoMaine

Stunning. That really is a gift you have there, and thank so much for sharing the process, it's fascinating how quickly the picture takes shape. Beautiful. How long would a picture like that typically take you?

This was a 10x12 inch portrait so about 15 and 20 hours worked over 3 or 4 days. I can only draw for about 4 hours at a time as it's hard on the eyes and everything can roll into one so to speak, so it's good to go back to it the next day with fresh eyes.