Rats
Pet rats are great! This lens is dedicated to rat lovers, see rat oil paintings in progress and more. Soon you will find information on rat breeds, fancy rat associations, behaviour & training, it is under construction at the moment so please remember to visit again soon!
Rat portraits are now available for commission at commissionworks4pets !


Rat Portraits
rat paintings, pastels and pencil portraits
Original rat designs on zazzle!
New rat painting
Work in progress
1. My reference photographs of the rats for the painting, one is of a rat I had a few years back and the other I found in the Wetcanvas image ref library.

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I took both rat images into photoshop along with the bottle and played around until it looked correct and saved it in grayscale mode to see the tonal values, which will change according to the light source in the painting, then it was ready to sketch out on the canvas.

3.Next I sketched out the composition on Daler & Rowney canvas paper lightly in charcoal.

4.Thinned oils were then blocked in a bit to start, getting rid of the pure white canvas helps at this stage.

5.I then begun to work from the top left corner on the bottle and dropped in some darker values.

6.Next I layed in more colours after drying, defining the rats.

7.It should be complete in a couple of layers as I'm now adding a tiny amount of drying medium to the paint and less linseed oil/ thinner.

8.The second last layer now, the rats feet, books and overall detail will be worked on when this one has dried.

UPDATE COMING SOON! :)
Rats video documentary! the beginnings of fancy rats & more
Rat Ribbons - winning respect for the rat
Great Stuff on CafePress
New Guestbook
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Apr 9, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
- For such a great lens Whitefoot the Wood Mouse is inviting all Rodent fans and lovers of great stories involving heroic animals to come visit the new Redwall Series Lens.
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- Eeyore Eeyore May 11, 2007 @ 7:00 am
- Your paintings are beautiful!
The rat picture thumbnails are clickable and go to my site, rat portraits are in the gallery section and you can leave comments there if you wish :) A4 rat pastel portrait















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