Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Artist and animal lover, Colleen Mulrooney, creates original artwork from your favourite photo of your animal friend. Celebrating the bond people have with the animals they love since 1993.

Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits

 
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits

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This is a group for all Pet Portrait Artists to share work, links and tips. Do you love trawling the net finding other artists like yourself? Do you enjoy comparing your own, and everyone elses work?...
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
A Christmas present for her husband, Nadine du Toit commissioned this portrait of his endurance horse. I think it came out really nicely!
Pam Utton
Pam Utton
your work is amazing, how long have you been doing this type of work? - I've been doing it for 2 months, I hope to be as good as you one day.
December 23, 2009 at 8:24am
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Thanks Pam, been at it sinc I left art school in 1992... it feels like a lifetime, yet I never tire of it.
December 25, 2009 at 12:15am
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Winding down for the year, this is one of my last orders for 2009...Ed Jackson took these photos off his wall for a portrait of the two family dogs. He was very happy with his portrait and couldn't wait until Christmas to give it to his wife!
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
pastel 41x30cmThis little cat didn't stay in the world for too long. She was only only four months old when she died suddenly from an incurable virus...
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
lovely blog comment from Christine regarding her portrait of Athena: http://colleenspetpawtraits.blogspot.com/2009/12/athena.html
December 22, 2009 at 12:33pm
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
25x30cm Coloured PencilsBarbara Schild's cat's, going all the way to the UK as a gift for her son.56 x 76 cm CharcoalIt's been years since I've done any gestural drawings in charcoal...
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
My friend Cathy's beautiful Belgian Shepherd Devon. Sadly she was poisoned earlier this year. She was an amazing dog.
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Just some of the projects I have on the go at the moment... Colette Staniland's portrait prize which she won at the Glen Austin show recently...... sketches of very busy Italian Greyhound....... a pair of Siamese sunning themselves on the garden bench...... and hiding on the side lines.....
Belinda VanCorler de Bruin
Belinda VanCorler de Bruin
Hi Colleen - Love the stocking fillers, are you using different horses that you drew over the years?, top centre row between the grey and the chestnut is a bay that look just like My Ledgend : ) - The one with the flash noseband
November 29, 2009 at 10:49pm
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
:) they are taken from the many portraits I've done over the years.. and your boy is indeed in there
December 5, 2009 at 2:41am
Neigh-Bours

Neigh-Bours  Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits donated our first site giveaway.. here's the result: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=333303110346 - isn't that awesome?!

Despite the apparent lack of activity here on my blog, I have been really busy in the studio.I donated a couple of prizes to the launch of the super cool Neigh-Bours site and a show that was held at Glen Austin Stables.A couple of the winners here.....
November 9, 2009 at 10:36pm
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Despite the apparent lack of activity here on my blog, I have been really busy in the studio.I donated a couple of prizes to the launch of the super cool Neigh-Bours site and a show that was held at Glen Austin Stables.A couple of the winners here.....
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
November 10, 2009 at 12:05am
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits

Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits new studio space - cosy (read small) - but a work in progress

Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
I'm glad that's how it looks!
November 3, 2009 at 12:16pm
Tanya Croukamp
Tanya Croukamp
Lovely Coll!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2009 at 12:01am
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Teddy was Chyenoa's beloved Jack Russell. She describes him as being mischievous and naughty - simply in everything. That is exactly what you can see in his photos. He loved rabbits and bird watching! Hence the little Masked Weaver Chyenoa requested - giving Teddy something to look at...
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Sally Ings writes of Skye:I have raised a Border Collie / Australian Shepherd pup (Skye) to adulthood who is a serious bundle of energy and unlike batteries never seems to run down. She certainly keeps Landro (GSD) on his toes.Sally has a coloured pencil portrait collection, these are her cats too.
Neigh-BoursSeptember 29, 2009 at 12:57am
Deborah Jackson
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
I have such a soft spot for chestnuts!
September 30, 2009 at 2:43am
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Colleen Mulrooney's PetPawtraits
Although I like the crest of this horse and the ears, listening to the rider, the shadow cast does minimise the detail - would be tricky to draw from.
September 30, 2009 at 2:46am