Laura Hardie

I love trying out new supports to work on when I can - cue Ampersand Pastelbord. I have various sizes and colours of this sitting around wai...

Odie 12x10 Coloured Pencil Commission Last week saw the schools on holiday again . I know I've said this before but I honestly don't...

Odie A work in progress - coloured pencil I've been thinking a lot lately about how I never make time (that word again) to go to more ...

Morse and Lewis 16x12 Coloured Pencil Commission My latest portrait of two Cocker Spaniels is now finished - 33 hours later, taking slightly...

Wolfie 12x10, Coloured Pencil on paper Commission No I haven't abandoned my blog and am still here. Life in general has simply taken ove...

I must apologise for the delay in revealing the title I have chosen for my 'Horse on Film' and ultimately the winner who will receiv...

Have been really lazy this past week and simply haven't put the hours in that I need to which means playing catch-up for the next week o...

This time on paper, and with lots of layers. I feel much more at home working with coloured pencils on paper than drafting film - mainly bec...

After a few touch-ups here and there and leaving it for a while to see if anything that wasn't right jumped out at me (it didn't) I ...

My website has been up and running for just over a year now and, I am happy to say, have had a lot of interest in my work because of it. In ...

My horse on drafting film was put to one side while I worked on the Springer Spaniel montage and it appears that during this time it had bee...

When I joined the world of blogging I mustn't have had my creative thinking hat on when I came up with 'My Art Blog' for a title...

Regular readers of my blog may remember my Springer Spaniel montage - well I am happy to say it is nearing completion having spent the last ...

I've made no secret of the fact that myself and Photoshop do not get along - I cannot, despite great help from fellow artists, get it su...

My plan to start working doubly hard had to take a back seat this week as I played Florence Nightingale to both my daughter and Zara, our do...

Well I can happily say I made it back from my hols in one piece - the plane did not have technical problems causing it to crash land, nor di...

With less than a week to go before I go off on holiday and all thoughts on ways to survive the flight, work still goes on behind the easel...

Being a mother of two children I am used to the saying "but I'm the only one in my class....." followed by some thing or other...

Of all the mediums I choose to work in (and there are a few) my favourite, and most requested, is definately coloured pencil. They are clean...

Floyd and George the two Goldens are now finished and here is the completed portrait with them together as promised ..... Have now started ...