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Hairy hound portrait

Just had this lovely message from Poppy’s owners. Thanks, Maggie, here she is! Hi Nina A rather belated happy new year!  We adore the portrait of Poppy, our hairy hound, and proudly show it off to friends and neighbours, but haven’t found her on your website or blog. best wishes, Maggie Welsh

Cows!

Drawing more images for cards and prints. These lovely ladies are from Barford Farm, nr. Wimborne. A great place for ice-cream! What do you think so far? >

German Shepherd portrait

A lovely dog to draw, makes a lovely head study of a german shepherd.

Zac’s portrait

A beautiful spaniel portrait, they make great subjects! Zac is a lovely example of one, with bags of character too! Thanks for coming across to pick him up, Nicola, I’m glad you liked him.Nina Squirewww.thepastelartist.co.uk07967 736762

3 lovely terrier portraits!

I’m really pleased with these lovely characters – they make a great terrier portrait! That’s all I can show for now – there’s so many surprises for Christmas. I’ve been flat out since the summer and can just about see the end of the line of commissions for Christmas which is great but exhausting! Its …

Spaniel portraits

Just working on this lovely pair, always great characters spaniels!

Japanese akitas

Just finishing these two off, they make a great pair.

Still more to do but it’s coming along!

This one’s a tricky task!

A Sheltie with a wall eye and sooo many colours!

Work in progress – Welsh springer spaniels.

This is the first of two spaniel portraits, these are welsh springer spaniels, a lighter brown than the liver and white spaniel portraits I’m used to. Always lovely to work with such pretty eyes, pastels are perfect for animal portraits.