Student Tracey Mold has been working on our Pet Portrait Diploma Course and this is her third submission and we are extremely impressed. Tracey’s Cow’s nose that she had drawn is simply exquisite and we are vey much looking forward to seeing more from Tracey in the coming weeks and months!
I really enjoyed this part of the course. I spent a lot of time experimenting with different papers and mediums all with varied results.
The Horse portrait.
This is with pastel and pencil on pastelmat. I have never actually drawn a full horses head before and felt I struggled with this a lot. I was very aware of the shadows around the bridle and also the texture of the horses coat itself. I do feel I haven’t captured this in the way I would have really liked but also later thought that it may have been better with a different colour back ground.
The dog and toy.
This one I really enjoyed doing. This is in pastel and pencil and felt more in control over the finer lines with this mixed medium.
The Dog nose.
I wanted to push myself so used again mixed medium but this time of pastels, pencils and oils. I am finding it really hard to get the texture, softness and detail I an happy with by using just oils alone. But I have been trying really hard to get to grips with this medium. What I was happy about was shadows and tones I managed to capture and thought that by using this mixture I managed to create a looser result.
The dog wearing a collar.
For this one I used just pastels. Again I enjoyed this but found it hard to get the softness of the white coat using just pastels alone.
The Animal tongue.
I chose a cow’s tongue as I thought the colours and textures were really good to try and capture. I used coloured pencil for this, loved every minute of it and was pleased with the result.
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