Puppy Profile: Holly

One of my fellow illustrators, Brad, has a young Kelpie named Holly.

It would seem that Holly is your kind of adventurous act first, ask questions later kind of pup.

Holly loves her ball, the beach, and chasing her ball at the beach. It just took her awhile to grasp the concept that water is not as easy to run on top of as sand.

It can certainly come as a rude shock when you're baring down on you favourite tennis ball and the ground disappears out from underneath you, and then the next thing you know, you're having a salt water bath!

Have included some wonderful photos of Holly when she was young taken by Brad's brother.

Puppy Profile: Spunkii

Did this pic for a mate of Jemma's. Here's what she had to say about Spunkii:-

"This is a dog who can not for one second let me spend 5 minutes alone. Not in the shower, not when going to the toilet, not even in bed with a man.. he must be able to walk in and check up on me and know here I am and what I'm doing at all times. In saying this, if he knows I'm going to be in the same spot for a little while (usually when I'm cooking or watching a dvd) he will disappear into my room and I wont hear the usual chewing of toys etc.. During these times I will always find Spunkii sitting on the floor looking at himself in the mirror in my bedroom. Often he'll sit on the foot of my bed staring at himself in the mirror. I have even come to notice that when I'm in bed reading and he's lying on my bed with me, he will always face the mirror and just look at himself.My ex used to call him the "serial killer", the way he would just stare like a creep into the mirror and if you went to interrupt him, his actions where very slow and calculated, however I think he just realises how cute he is, and he's working on his sad faces in order to get away with more stuff whenever he is with me."

Wha? Who did that?

Today's sketch is inspired by a scene that involve Sam on a regular basis.

I've also been mucking around with some different sketching styles.

I have also include the styles I developed for Moose for the Pawphans and MeMate ranges.

Covorting with the enemy

I've often wondered why it is that some dogs will quite happily live in harmony with cats, others will take not interest in them, and then others will look at a cat like its the greatest remote control chew toy of all time.

I wonder if those dogs think of their doggie brethren as traitors when the see them covorting with the enemy.

Space walk - One small step in slow motion

Was thinking to myslef this morning how funny it is to see an owner chasing their dog that has got off the leash and is chasing something. Take that amusing situation and place it in the low gravity of the moon and we have our very frustrating astronaut calling out in the vacuum of space as he pursues (in low gravity bouncing slow mo) his moon rover. :)

Roswell?...or Rex

I love drawing cute lil aliens and cute lil dogs. I guess thats why I like the Lilo and Stitch movie so much!:)

Here we have an accident thats occured when certain interstellar craft are mistaken for other flying objects.

Another day older - Chase that Ball

Well, its the day after and I must say I'm feeling pretty good. It was a great birthday and i'm feeling pretty good about things. So its back to reality and back to chasing the ball!

Birthday!!! - what do puppies dream of

Its that mixture of excitement and dread that makes up any birthday of mine these days today. The excitement of presents and nice dinners, mixed with the dread of being yet another year older.

I was unwrapping a present this morning with my dogs staring happily up at me. They didn't know what was going on but to them it seemed pretty exciting. I wondered if they knew when they got a year older, and if so what did they wish for as birthday presents.

And so hence this lil illustration that i startedas i was waiting for the car to warm up...lil dog, big present!