Draw and Paint your Pet

In this delightfully illustrated book Susie Wynne shows how to draw and paint a range of popular pets in watercolour – dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, horses – in step-by-step detail.

Learning how to paint your pet has great popular appeal. The Daily Mail weekend colour supplement has already featured Susie Wynne’s work twice and this brought in a huge postbag.

Susie specializes in painting people’s pets and over the years she has perfected her drawing and watercolour techniques to capture the unique personality of her animal subjects. Most doting owners want some permanent record of their pet, and in this book Susie shares the secrets of her success.

She starts by taking photographs of the animals, then does a loose pencil sketch and gradually builds up the right body proportions and the texture of the fur in watercolour. Susie believes the important thing is to capture the animal’s character and personality and that to do this you have to get to know the animal first.

Draw and Paint Your Pet includes plenty of practical instruction and thirteen full step-by-step demonstration paintings of dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea-pigs and horses.

About the author

Susie Wynne has painted many well-known and royal pets – including those of Michael Bond (author of Paddington Bear), the horses in the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace, Lord and Lady Vesty’s dogs, etc. She has also written articles for Leisure Painter and Artists & Illustrators magazine, and has been featured in the Daily Mail colour supplement.