Breathe' - A3 Tiger Print

At High school I did GCSE Art and Graphics, then went on to college to study General Art and Design, gaining a B'tec National Diploma after two years, though I do not think that college helped my style and technique but I enjoyed the experience.
At the age of 18, I went to Holland, where I worked with dogs and cats in a boarding kennel and catery, this is where I decided to build up a portfolio of dogs and cats as I had plenty of subjects to study and photograph to work from later.
When drawing from a photograph you can pick out even the tiniest of detail which can be the difference between a flat looking piece and a piece that jumps out of the page at you.
Back in England at the age of 19, I started up my own Business and studied a business course, over the next few years I tried to market myself and attended as many dog shows, cat shows, trade fayres, craft fayres and market stalls as possible to promote and sell my work. There was a lot of interest, people loved what they saw, I took orders for personal commissions, this is where I started to concentrate on the commissioned work whilst building up portfolio's of my artwork of cats, dogs, birds, wildlife and people using watercolour, acrylics, gouache, pastels, pastel pencils and graphite, all the time concentrating on proportion, detail and life like qualities, this is what makes up my style of work.
I have built myself a Web site to display my work for people from all walks of life to see, this was a real challenge but most enjoyable to do and it is great to be able to go and visit your own work at a virtual gallery knowing others are seeing it too, if you would like to visit my work online, go to www.carlajaneart.com
I hope you will enjoy looking through the site and will want to come back again. I sell various prints of many subjects including; Animals, People, Cars, Motorbikes, Birds, Aquatic life, Horses, Sunsets, too many to name. I also do Personal Commissions of any subject I am asked to do, a Cow named Lotty, was one of the more unusual ones and a pair of Hamsters named Java & purl.
For more details about Commissioning a Portrait, visit my website.
I also sell Greetings Cards, Bookmarks, Keyrings, T-Shirts, Fridge Magnets and other products.
I hope you enjoy looking at my work, if you have a query or ideas of your own you would like to disscuss, please feel free to email me, I look forward to hearing from you 

Carla Jane