by Hope Lane | Apr 16, 2016 | Blog
Continuing a Portrait of Pudge I roughed in the painting of Pudge using largish, bristle brushes and it very quickly started to fall into place. The fur already feels like the correct texture for a lab mix. Pudge’s coloring seems about right too. Some paintings...
by Hope Lane | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog
Pet Portraits for a New Home I was asked to create two portraits of Pudge and Daisy as a “new home” gift. Both would be 12 x 12 and would be hung together so their colors should be in harmony. Fortunately I had some great photos to work from which is not...
by Hope Lane | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog
Finished Havanese Portrait — Remembering Bandit I was asked to paint Bandit as a memorial to “the best little guy ever”. His sweet smile and his braids were especially important to his pet parent. Sometimes as I’m painting I get carried away...
by Hope Lane | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog
Back in the Saddle With a Havanese For the past few months I have been taking a break from posting about my art. Life had gotten pretty chaotic for me as we decided to make a spontaneous move to a new home that would provide me with a separate room for my studio. In...
by Hope Lane | Oct 28, 2015 | Blog
Finished Painting of a Black Labrador Retriever This is the finished custom pet portrait of Huck, a Black Labrador Retriever. I’ve heard many other artists talk about the difficulties in painting a black animal–but I enjoy it. It’s like using light...
by Hope Lane | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog
Black Lab Portrait Continues The client selected the sketch of Huck the black lab on a shaggy rug so that we could focus in on his face. The biggest revision was softening and making the colors in the background lighter and less intrusive. I started the painting by...