Love me, love my terrier.....

Spell it out with bull terriers! Cards and more from the Terriers' Club this Valentine's Day https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheTerriersClub?section_id=16584115&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TheTerriersClub?section_id=16584115&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1

January-itis?

Have just read that today, January 19th is the most depressing day of the year!
Forget Blue Monday and hug your comforting bull terrier......
Roll on Spring!

Charming dogs à la française..... Wire Haired Fox Terrier.

Not my usual, but nonetheless a terrier however insubstantial!
One of several lovely French plates from a vintage children's book on dog breeds.
Check it out here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/206834694/collie-dog-print-vintage-french?ref=shop_home_active_1 

Terrier experiments.....

I love thinking up my Christmas cards. I start in August which ought to be a hard call in the sunshine but once I start, I can't stop. It involves a lot of experimentation and in this case I ended up with an adjustable back leg flap before I got it right!
See the end result and more cards at the Terriers' Club shop.

Coming Soon......

Just sitting on the boiler and drying off! Just a few more coats and we're ready for off....

Fortuitous Photo.....

I have been messing about turning my drawings into stickers. In my desperation to see the finished result, I applied it hastily without bothering to remove all the bubbles and took a quick photo. Mysterious processes had been at work - the back of the seat has cleverly suggested itself into the dog shape, helping to create this ghost bull terrier in the back seat!

A Traditional British Spring!

Inspired by the weakest glimmer of Spring sunshine (essential here - it might be all we get!), flowers are bursting out all over at the Terriers' Club.
This is my "Bargee's Dog", a painting on board which has given me the chance to reproduce the lovely strong patterns of traditional canal boat art.
Narrowboat art is found throughout the inland waterways of the UK - on the paintwork of the canal barges and on the utensils of those who live this itinerant lifestyle.

Typified by stylized roses, castles and organic patterns in strong colours, this artform originates perhaps in Romany/Gypsy or nautical art.

More to the point, I would love a dog who looked like this!