Oil Pastel & Watercolor/Colored Pencil Pet Portrait Gallery

Susan Donley's color drawings and paintings of dogs, cats and birds

Some pet's beautiful coat or markings cry out to be painted in a color portrait!

These examples show the two color media I use to capture colorful pet personalities:

Oil pastel's strong, vivid color reproduces the colorful complex highlights of shiny coats and the soft fuzzy textures of others;

Colored pencil's subtle color creates finer detail than pastels. An under-painting of watercolor glows through the pencil.