Introduction

My name is Selma Sluijs, I live in Vleuten and together with my husband and two dogs. Since childhood, I have loved animals and had a passion for drawing. A few years ago, I picked up drawing seriously again and started a basic drawing course at the Volksuniversiteit with the aim of learning to draw realistic animals myself. After taking a number of drawing courses, workshops and reading many books on drawing, I completely found my niche at the Bonny Snowdon Academy, which focuses on drawing animals with coloured pencil. From there, I grew to what you see here on my website.

Due to the enthusiastic response from people around me, I have done a number of commissioned portraits. Drawing commissioned animal portraits gives me even more joy, because I have found that I can make people very happy with them. Especially when it comes to a deceased pet, the reactions are very emotional. For me, this is an important reason for wanting to do commissioned portraits.