I just tossed a bunch of things into my Scraps folder so if you can't find something that was previously in my gallery, look there! I'm going to try and keep my main gallery for the more finished pieces and put the animal sketches, aceo art, doodles etc into scraps just to keep the place looking tidy.

I'm also experiencing a profound sense of relief at having a piece of traditional artwork returned intact from being on tour around Australia. The frame ended up with a slight chip but that's not too bad considering how often it was unpacked/repacked/shipped. It's a graphite portrait of racehorse Black Caviar that was accepted into the Inglis Equine Art Prize a year ago. Nice to have her home again :) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u.....arfinalweb.jpg

I don't really do the full-on photorealistic animal portraits anymore. I did it for a few years and was getting places with galleries, exhibitions, winning prizes, getting published etc but my passion for it kind of disappeared. Each one would take me weeks to complete and I just burnt out. I much prefer the fantasy stuff these days but it doesn't mean I won't ever go back to doing them.