by Hope Lane | Nov 5, 2016 | Blog
A Cavalier For Christmas Stage 2 This painting is actually a bit farther along than an initial underpainting–but I forgot to take a photo earlier, oops. You can see the rough first layer of paint in the ears and legs, while the face is refined quite a bit...
by Hope Lane | Oct 30, 2016 | Blog
A Cavalier For Christmas Christmas can be a pretty busy time around my studio with lots of people giving portraits as gifts to those near and dear. Bentley’s portrait was one of those gifts…a 12″ x 12″ painting from husband to wife showing...
by Hope Lane | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog
Finished Portrait of a Cavalier This is the finished memorial painting of Katey, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Many of my clients come to me when a pet they have loved has passed on. As a pet “parent” myself, I have loved and lost my own dogs, and...
by Hope Lane | Aug 14, 2016 | Blog
Portrait of Katey, a Cavalier I completed the underpainting and went on to start layering in the strokes that create the fur. Coats on different animals and breeds vary enormously. The artist needs to use different types of brush strokes to capture their many...
by Hope Lane | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
Sweet Katey, beginning a memorial portrait I began this painting of Katey, a lovely little Cavalier who crossed the rainbow bridge, quite a while ago. I was looking over my past work and realized that this turned out to be a favorite painting–but that I never...