Happy New Year!

Happy 2009 to everybody and i hope everyone had a good Christmas.

Looking back at 2008, I haven't really done a lot and certainly came no-where near to fulfilling any of my New Year's Resolutions, so this year i'm not going to make any at all!! I'm just going to go with the flow and maybe by 2010 i'll have reached some of the 2008 goals! The main mission is to find a bit of motivation and inspiration to develop myself a bit.

We are moving house on January 16th, so I will be off-line for a while around that time and am not accepting commissions currently as we will need time to settle in.

Commission anouncement

Some of you may have noticed on my website that I am not currently accepting orders for commissions. This is due to changes that mean my time working on pet portraits will be limited. This will make it harder to meet customer deadlines and offer reasonable lead times.

Obviously, the pet portraits I currently have on my waiting list won't be affected.

I will still be working on my artwork. With no commissions any time I do have will be spent developing my own portfolio and hopefully learning new mediums, so there will still be updates on the blog and I will also keep my website online, as I may well return to commissions at a later date.

No more Christmas commissions

I have decided to close my waiting list to any orders required before Christmas. I was thinking today at work that I could probably manage one or two more on top of my current list, then came home to find two orders in the post from the same customer and an email order form. I was just sorting those out - doing deposit invoices and adding them to my waiting list spreadsheet when another customer called to confirm a go ahead on an order discussed a couple of weeks ago. So - 4 commssions ordered in one day! That's a first.

Last year I was still accepting orders at the end of November and ended up rushing in the week leading up to Christmas and i'm not doing that this year. I shall be organised. I have 11 pet portraits to comlpete between now and Christmas which is plenty, so there should be lots of artwork to add on here in the coming weeks.

If you were thinking of ordering a portrait for Christmas I do supply Gift Vouchers as an alternative.