Catnip Chronicles Blog

The Hustle of a Pet Portrait Artist: Balancing Art, Business, and a Love for Animals Life as a pet portrait artist is anything but quiet!...

Each year as an artist brings new challenges, lessons, and opportunities for growth, and this year is all about focus, creativity, and...

I have just looked back at my last blog that I wrote and it was July! Can you believe it? And even worse is the fact that I write in my...

Introduction; As an artist with a deep love for nature, animals, and wildlife, it suddenly occurred to me....... how great it would be to...

Oh, the adventures we have with our furry companions! Our cat, a mischievous ball of fur named Maisie Jo, has been with us for many...

in a very small way...but it's better than nothing! In my search for Companies to produce my range of printed clothing, I came across a...

I have been contemplating this blog for some time now and the way it should be going! Reading other artist ‘Blogs’ I see that most are...

I recently posted this on my Facebook and Instagram page. After years of doing things a safe, sensible way, I decided to take the biggest...

Pet portrait commissions...a collaboration between artist and pet owner. I understand that approaching an artist to paint a portrait of...

I hope you are all keeping well...it's finally starting to get a little colder now and it's not so difficult to think that Christmas...

In my first post, I said I would introduce my family.....just quickly so you can see who you're dealing with! This is my lovely...

As a new business, one of the many challenges is to work out the ebbs and flows of the yearly calendar. Talk of recession is not a great...