First there’s Skip, who sat beside me while I sketched people on a beach in Tenby. She was poised and alert, watching a gap in the fence where a rat had just appeared and vanished, but I had to be quick! Then there’s 3 pages of Queenie, my parents’ dog, best drawn when resting. She’s a bit more active in the final set of drawings, sitting up and having a good scratch…

Pencil, fountain pen with Lexington grey, water-brush with Parker blue, Noodlers Brown 41, Bad Blue Heron and Lexington grey, water-colour, A5 – 5 mins per dog