Shih Tzu Portrait Continues
Shih Tzu Portrait Continues I seem to be working this painting from top to bottom which isn't always the case. Quinn's face is important in this painting so I concentrated on keeping the feeling of the way his hair grows, and trying to capture his rather serious...
Hooray for a Shih Tzu
Hooray for a Shih Tzu I was asked to paint a custom pet portrait of Quinn wearing his Mississippi State sweater. It's always fun to do something a bit different, and I knew trying to get the sweater's texture and lettering would be a good challenge. I started by...
Finished Portrait of a Cockapoo on the Beach
Finished Portrait of a Cockapoo on the Beach I finished up my painting of Grover by refining the textures on fur and sand. My goal was to convey the feeling of the end of the day by showing the warmth of the setting sun on his fur. 8" x 10″ acrylic painting on an...
Cockapoo Painting Phase Two
Cockapoo Painting Phase Two I started the underpainting for Grover's portrait using a stiff hog bristled brush to try to set up that soft, fluffy quality a cockapoo's fur has. It was also important that I capture the red-gold sunset lighting that made Grover's...
Grover at the Beach
Grover at the Beach There's nothing better than when a client I painted a portrait for comes back again for another painting. I originally painted a sweet-faced yellow lab named Ozzie almost three years ago and now my client has decided to give a portrait of Grover as...
Finished Painting of a Schnauzer
Finished Painting of a Schnauzer Commissioned Painting of Sassy by Hope Lane, 8" x 10" acrylic This is Stella's finished portrait--In this final stage, I've added lots of small highlighted hairs with a very tiny brush trying to get the reflective silvery feeling in...
Schnauzer Portrait Continues
Schnauzer Portrait Continues Sassy's portrait is starting to come together as I layer in the fur stroke by stroke. Her fur has an almost luminous silvery quality that I hope to capture. I use a combination of carbon black, pthalo blue and titanium white in the gray...
Starting Off Sassy the Schnauzer’s Portrait
Starting Off Sassy's Portrait This is the first rough painting for a portrait of a Schnauzer named Sassy. Her "human" gave me a wonderful description of her. I always start off a commission by asking for a sense of what a dog or cat is like, because I believe the more...
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