Where has all the daylight gone! My desk can’t hold any more lamps and it’s still not light enough! This has to be my least favourite part of winter. It’s always so dark. Roll on, spring!

Been steadily working on my current commission of Chando the ridgeback. It’s 21 x 29cm (a tiny bit smaller than A4) and is in coloured pencil. Orange and blue have to be my favourite complementary colours, so I’m trying to work that into this portrait a little. I’ve been layering my flat colours on the muzzle and right side of the face, it just needs a few more layers with paint thinner and then I’ll be drawing in the fur.

Work in progress shots below 😉