"Cookie the Pug" - Colourful Pug Painting in Acrylic by Renee Dillon

Black and white lineart of a pug called Cookie waiting for a tasty treat.

This is of course going to be a colourful pug painting, but I found that I absolutely loved the graphic, black and white quality of the lineart. I'd love a picture of this pug on a tote bag. I need to fix the settings on my camera so I can get higher resolution images for printing. They come out looking fine at the moment, but they need to be larger to be accepted on Society 6 and Fine Art America. Duvet covers (or quilt covers) in particular require a very large resolution.

So for now, this image is just a preview of the delightful pugliness to come.

"Milo the Red Heeler" - Acrylic Painted Pet Portrait

I follow a Buy Swap and Sell page for pets on Facebook, because I like the cute animals that pop up in my news feed. Mostly it's things like rabbits and birds, but occasionally cute puppies come up and I have to draw them. This one was a red heeler, a different colour variation of a blue heeler. It was actually a pretty difficult colour and texture to emulate in paint, but I like it the way it is anyway.

I love the way the colourful hills and bright blue sky came out. I'll have to do backgrounds like this more often. If you want to buy prints of this image, including items such as throw cushions, greeting cards and phone cases, you can check out my account on Fine Art America.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 5 - Orange Cat

I've been drawing a few cats this month. I'd like to improve my drawings of cats, since it always frustrated me as a kid when the cats I drew looked like monkeys. It's kinda nice to think back to things like that and realise that you must have improved since then, and will continue to improve in future. I'm still a bit frustrated with my painting abilities. There are some bits I need to touch up where the paint brush got away with me, and I need to plan out my colour palettes better.

I'm going to go back over the lineart with my pen when it's dry so it looks dark and bold again. Might add some detail with coloured pencils as well, such as colouring the stripes.