Artist LC

 Tiny details make all the difference. It takes several breaks away from a picture to be able to see clearly what is slightly wrong or what is missing from the drawing. This is frustrating but necessarily, with my cognitive disability on top of my phydicsl dissbility I simply do not necessarily see what is wrong, straight away. I am also reminded that patience is important in order to get the picture that I will be happy with.. this is a lesson in wisdom. With this lovely dog Loki from PennyPaws Charity, I simply did not see that I had missed out some of his pale brown markings on the left side of his face until the next day. See the difference in the two pictures. The second one is softer. Both look okay if you don’t know the dog. Only one looks more like him, though. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2024/04/20/loki/  

  There are quite a few hurdles I need to overcome in order to draw a pastel. Hand to eye coordination is mostly tricky, difgicult or not posdible. My hands and fingers are always numb to varying degrees. They slso burn with pain and throb frequently. My eyes are blurry and it is hard to focus. Several times a day or all day I can be paralysed partially or totally, near paralysed, or too weak to move. My mind is blanked by each paralysis and I cannot necessarily see or understand or receive and edpress information. And then there is the head pain, switching sides, left, right, top, back of head, neck, limbs all throbbing in unison. It is quite miraculous that I can ever  draw at all. Then there are literally brief moments in a month when I can see a bit more clearly, I might hold a pastel and look at a picture and try to draw it. I have to be very quick. Any sound or movement or surprise can knock me back into blankness and paralysis once more and the rest of the day is stolen...

  A little humour to start the dsy. My husband is painting the kitchen!

  I came across a sketch book with a couple of pictures in I had forgotten. This one is of our Forgi, Camy who died a couple of years ago. It was drawn 2  before that very sad day. Just a simple sketch, but seems to reflect the situation. He could barely move, needed help to walk and there was a whole space not  lived in by him, yet still he loved to watch and smell the fresh air and looked outward towards us.  How we loved him. How we miss him..

When our lovely Corgi was very ill and disabled we sit out in the garden with him early in the morning, as he enjoyed the fresh air snd loved to see what was going on in the garden. We had a family of baby robins  who called in regularly for good. This is a quick sketch in ink pen which I made just before our dog died and all the birds strangely went away, as if they knew.  

  Delighted to share that the PennyPaws dig rescue charity webpage now features my art video of their figs. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/2023/11/28/the-beautiful-rescue-dog-art-of-lc/ This makes me so happy each dog is so precious and hoping it raises awareness of their caring work.

  This sweet, beautiful dog is called Mikey. He is very fearful of contact but progressing. I sm touched by his story and his need for help. I wanted to convey the fear and the hope in his face. It was a challenge drawing tge fur and finding the right colours.  An artist friend once said to me, many years ago, that however many coloured pastels  you have, you still don’t have quite the right one. How true that is with dogs particularly. I guess this is where blending comes in. I am proud to see my picture on Mikey’s web page. He is in great need of extra sponsorship. https://pennypawsrescue.org.uk/sponsor-a-pennypaws-dog/