Tye - New border collie commission

Grand Champion Nahrof Say No More - Tye

Tye was commissioned as an early Christmas gift by Deborah for her good friend. Sadly this much loved and well known boy is no longer with us. Making his portrait an extra special memory for his owners. Tye's portrait will shortly be placed in my Immortals Gallery on www.animalarthouse.com

Bookings are fill up fast for 2009, if you would like to commission a portrait of your beloved companion please drop me an email: catherin@animalarthouse.com

thanks for reading my blog. Merry Christmas & a happy new year.

Catherin

Family Affair - Lion pride

A Family Affair

Hot off the easel this morning. A family affair is my latest wildlife pastel. Thanks so much to Greg Hupka for the use of his wonderful photo.

10" x 12" For sale. for more information about A family affair please email me at catherin@animalarthouse.com as always works of art for sale a can be purchased using: pay pal for international buyers or direct deposit or cheque for Australian purchasers.

thanks for looking

Catherin

Perfect in Pink - Pop Art Pup

Perfect In Pink

10' x 12" acrylic on 1' gallery wrapped canvas. Perfect in Pink is one of my latest Pop Art Pup portraits which is on display at Dogue - Bondi Junction Australia.

Perfect in Pink is for sale $175.00 with 10% of the sale price being donated to rescue. email: catherin@animalarthouse.com

These guys are so much fun to paint and make a lovely contrast to my pastel portraits. You can commission your own Pop Art Pup by email me at the above email address.

Thanks for looking .

The Task at Hand

The Task at Hand

Since starting to work in watercolour again, Ive chosen some challenging subjects. This one was no acception with the checked shirt. The folds of his chaps where wonderful to work on with their folds of leather.

I hope Ive done justice to my subject. My next challenge is a black and white watercolour portrait of a horse and rider. But first I have a beautiful immortal collie dog named Tye to complete.

To purchase this work email me directly catherin@animalarthouse.com

Reindeer magic

My 8 year old daughters school teacher asked if I would do a christmas art project with the class.

Panic mode sure kicked in. Felt I had to do the right thing I decided that this guy would (fingers crossed) be simple enough for a group of 7 - 8 year olds to do. The class starts next week, when I get the kids kicked off with drawing up their reindeer ready to paint.

Wish me luck as this is something entirely new for me.

A Christmas Treat

I finally had time to sit down and work on my Christmas card image for 2008. This little girl who Ive titled A Christmas Treat is a pastel. 7" x 8 1/2" in size.

A Christmas Treat is for sale and I have dedicated 20% from the sale price of this work to Old Dog Haven a rescue that takes care of elderly canines looking for a home to share there twilight years with.

for more information on this work or to purchase please email me:

catherin@animalarthouse.com

Matriarch - Elephants

Matriarch

Matriarch depicts a small heard of elephants in the evening dust. I found the colours in this piece a challenge as the evening light was such a brilliant orange. Thank you to Olivier Delaere for the use of your wonderful photo.

A pastel on canson pastel paper. Matriarch is for sale and can be purchased directly from myself or through Ed Barry of http://www.wildlife-safaris-in-south-africa.com/contact-page.html who show cases my African Wildlife Art.

email Catherin: catherin@animalarthouse.com