Pasteled Paw by Kat

Pets make life brighter

Oil pastels and coloured pencil pet portraits

More than a pet.
A piece of your heart.

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Real pets · Real art · Lasting memories

Kat's painting of Ceelo, her own dog, cut out

on paper

on colour

on gold

Kat's painting of Ceelo, her own dog, cut out, on plain paper

on paper

on colour

on gold

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Recent work

A close-up soft pastel portrait of a ginger tabby cat's face, on a plain paper ground.

A coloured pencil portrait of a black-and-white French bulldog with its tongue out, on a plain paper ground.

A soft pastel portrait of a grey-muzzled senior dog with one brown eye and one cloudy blue eye, on a plain paper ground.

A soft pastel portrait of a Shih Tzu with a black mask and a long grey-and-white coat, cut out against a flat orange ground.

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Step 1 of a portrait taking shape, from pencil to finished

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The finished portrait, photographed off the desk: a brown-and-white puppy with one folded ear and a broad white blaze, head tilted, drawn in coloured pencil on white paper.

I paint pets in soft and oil pastel, one at a time, from photographs you send me. Every portrait is made by hand on paper, and posted anywhere in the world.

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Portraits of dogs, in pastel and pencil.

Recent work

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