DPC Design

14/01/2024

Lovely border collie being worked on, slowly starting to take shape, many more layers to go. Love working on wood burning projects and watching them come to life.

23/01/2023

Absolutely 💯

Do you ever wonder why some people have truly happy horses ? Horses that never colic, bang on stall doors, misbehave while with you on the ground and under saddle ? It's not all due to training.
Its because some horses are allowed to be horses. The absolute very best thing you can do for every horse is let them live outside in a herd with constant forage. Let the horse decide with his group when to eat, when to nap under the shelter, when to drink and when to play. Let him learn his place in the herd. Horses do not need humans or our ideas. They need forage, water and oxygen .I hear almost daily from horse owners they they are scared to let their horses outside because they will hurt themselves. So you turn them out 1 hr a day and they go nuts. Meanwhile 23 hours a day their minds are going nuts as you lock them in a stall with "enrichments". Then they act like fools while you are trying to groom and ride. It's not the horse, it's the human routine
Stop feeding your horses at 8 am and 5 pm on the dot everyday. These types of routines create anxiety in horses that leads to stress colic, ulcers, bad behaviors and more. Feed one day at 8 and the next at 820. Mix it up a little and stop making them live on a humans routine that you think is best.
We have around 80 head in our large herd. They get along like clockwork, everyone has a place and they are living their best life.
Let your horse be a horse , living out not only is mentally healthy but also keeps them in great physical health as well!

19/01/2023

Wanted to show some progression of how digital art works. In some aspects it actually takes longer that my pastel or wood burning art because you have to paint the colors in then go back and blend. You can’t paint and blend at the same time like you can do with traditional art. Here’s a couple of photos of a digital piece I’m working on currently. I will add to this post as I progress.

15/01/2023

Im going to call this finished.

14/01/2023

I’m going to call this one done for now. I hope everyone enjoyed watching her come to life.

13/01/2023

More work done on Rosie our havanese tonight. As the layers go on you can see her coming to life.

12/01/2023

Been working with digital art for about a week now and I must say I’m quite enjoying it. Currently working on a
Picture of Rosie our havanese who is also the brand ambassador for dog products Canada. I did a short video to show that the process of painting is still the same, it’s just on a tablet instead of canvass. I will post more pictures when I’ve got more done.

06/01/2023

Working with procreate again trying to get a feel for all the different options and layers available. The process of painting digitally is the same and it takes a while, but if you mess up it’s an easier fix. Currently working on painting with different sunsets and enjoying it very much.

03/01/2023

Still using procreate I added another layer to tone down the brightness of the blue in the previous post and added a few more highlights. It interesting to work with the iPad instead of paint and paper or pastel and paper. Certain parts are easier, but other parts take a while to get the feel of work with the different brushes and blending tools of the digital world. I still prefer the hand painted with acrylics or pastels personally, but this is fun.

03/01/2023

Got procreate for my iPad my first hand draw painting tonight. Just done using my finger need to get an apple pen to make my life easier.

02/12/2022

So happy to finally have this one completed. It sure was a challenge but I’m very happy with the final result.

13/10/2022

This is a labour of love and a labour of patience from the client. Never has it taken me this long to complete a wood burning but I do want this to be perfect. I love this form of art so much and still can’t believe that you can use heat and wood to create such beauty.