Welcome to the gallery of horse portraits. Many different looking portraits that can be created. Your horse portrait can either be just a head shot or a full body pose or even several animals together, the portrait can be done in a variety of different media ranging from the soft gentle tones of pastels, to detailed monotone pencil studies through to vibrant striking oil paintings. All new commissions will be added for everyone to see. If you have a particular request for a portrait, please contact the artist who will be happy to advise.
"Three Kings" style portrait. There's a famous horse portrait that most people in the equine world will be familiar with, and I've often heard it's title used as shorthand for describing a portrait of three horses together. The painting is by Susan Crawford and shows the iconic racehorses ...CLICK FOR MORE >
A customer's favourite photo was of them riding their horse 'Bouncer' during a rather scary looking jump. Produced A4 size, the pencil sketch really came out well though the difficult area to do wasn't the area you'd expect it to be. he horse and rider were straightforward to do, it was the hedge that was ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"It's fab! Love it"
A second portrait of Mary was commissioned, a follow-up to the painting, 'Mary In The Mirror', this time a monotone pencil sketch drawn on a 20" x 16" board. It was a straightforward portrait to do though it did mean trying to get large areas as dark as possible with a pencil to give enough contrast with ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"Once again you have succeeded in producing an outstanding piece of work."
Commissioned as a present for a friend, this portrait really suited a burgundy background due to the subtle dark red colours in Moth's colouring ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"I can't wait to see it in the flesh!"
Completed oil painting of 'Mary In The Mirror' with frame. I'm very pleased with how this turned out! A recent photo session organised by Yorkshire Pet Portrait's customer and good friend, Flo Plummer, using her horse Mary, provided some surprising results and great original photographs to use ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"It looks superb so I'm sure my dad will be over the moon so thanks very much."
The fantastic colours in the coat were captured in the great photo used for a dad's Christmas portrait. As I'm always telling my customers, it's all down to the quality of the photgraph supplied, the better the photo, the more detailed the portrait! ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"Many thanks for the picture of our horse portrait, it looks great."
This portrait was commissioned as a wife's birthday present, using a photograph taken in sunlight which illuminated the horse's colours and detail to perfection ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"It looks great, thank you so much!"
A very light coloured background was an instinctive choice for drawing the light brown and grey colouring of Hoagy, resulting in a subtle, almost ghostly image! ... ...CLICK FOR MORE >
"It looks amazing, thank you!
"That looks fab thank you, thrilled with it as I am sure my niece will be probably bring a tear to her eye!"
"The portrait looks fantastic, couldn't be happier!
Commissioned as a 40th birthday present
"Andrew has really captured Bumble's grumpy but adorable personality, i.e. "don't mess with me or I'll bite!!" He's lovable really. I'm thrilled with my painting."
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