New horse drawing finished this week...

Drawings and paintings from last year..

 Pet commission

 

Kinsale Ireland

 

Sidmouth Devon

 Porpollo Cornwall

 

Portland Bill Weymouth

 

The rat was drawn very quickly it took me two hours...using a charcoal pencil.

The baby Elephant has been a big break through for me...instead of drawing quickly and with a tricky charcoal pencil I took my time over a few days...working out proportions more and using a black water colour pencil drawn on textured paper...this was drawn in October 2013 and at various Christmas fairs I sold 3 large prints and 10 small prints which was amazing! So now as you've seen with the other earlier post I'm using this type of pencil to get more detail and taking my time more...

I'm a character artist...capturing mood and expression.

Feel free to follow or be my friend on facebook to see my latest art work and what craft events i'm doing...always ready to draw your pet....email me now..
peterspetportraits@yahoo.co.uk

My new pet commisssions and new cards and prints...all customers were pleased with there drawings..

Below are my new animal cards and prints...

See the first Tin Teacher thanks to the Comics Archive blog...thanks Bruce..

http://comics.brucelaing.id.au/tinteacher/

Drawn by Peter Davidson


It reminds me of Monster Fun's Creature Teacher..
 ;0)

Have a Cheeky Christmas everyone!

 Frank Mc Diarmid who did so much to make Cheeky such a brill comic and good annuals. Wonderful to collect and reread...even for adults it offers a good chuckle!

 

This cover is drawn by Robert Nixon!

A Christmas gift from comicsuk forum...thanks everyone...

http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5869

Go to link to see lots more thanks Spy for starting this...

Charles Griggs tribute..1916-2013

 As a tribute to this wonderful comic artist. I've showed his later work The Dandy comic library 1984. It was fun to showhow he would draw different Beano characters in his style.
I love the crazy about creatures book Beano and Dandy has it showed artists names...behind the scenes and showing Charles going back to DC Thomson to see his original comic work at 90 years old. The photo shows his drawing being altered which personally spoils it...

He was great at covers as seen every week in Korky for The Dandy. He was great at doing the large panel which caught your eye...know wonder he got into postcards later on.

He also drew adventure stories like Captain whoosh and I love this era for the action packed two pager...wish this idea was used today.

We leave you with this brilliant close up of Korky...very Disney like...

Charles has left us such a wonderful comic legacy to enjoy and smile again and again...lets hope new readers will discover him in these old comics and reprints..

Cheers to Charles
and thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends

Peter

Happy Days comic Fireworks fun and Christmas cover by legend Roy Wilson..

 A great book by Denis Grifford 100 years of comics...lots of great comic covers from 1870-1970. Bought in Oxfam this week for £3.99..;0)

 

I love Roy Wilson's work and these gems are the right season to show here well inbetween...wonder if the elephant driving the catherine wheel car inspired Korky the cat in the 60's when he did it for the Dandy fireworks issue..

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/gunpowder-treason-and-plot.html

Love the way the cover is wrapped around another picture running along the side...

These covers are a feast for the eyes...

The Oink! Blog: #15: NOT A "NEW LOOK" With Pete's pimple fiorst story..and a new Tom Paterson page

The Oink! Blog: #15: NOT A "NEW LOOK": Go to link now to see much more by Lew Striger from this issue..

The Dandy and The Beano 1937-1969 Classic Christmas comic covers..

 

Phil has worked hard to get this off the ground and its brilliant!

Whats nice there are lots of early covers as there were two Christmas covers in the early years...so glad he included both.. 

 

 

Heres my actual copy of this issue...

 

 I like The Beano covers has they often included the other Beano characters for the cover..

 

Its a lovely book and so glad DC Thomson has given permisssion for this.

                    It is very well made and has a dust cover and is printed on good matt paper..

 

I'm so glad the orders for this book are going well...lets hope it leads to other books..

Firworks comic covers...complete Jonah..Banana Bunch poster pages by Leo Baxendale...Black Bob..etc..

Get yours for just over £20 postage is reduced the more books you buy.

http://phil-comics.com/christmas.php

It will be the perfect gift this Christmas...