First Steps–The Portrait’s Underpainting
First Steps–The Portrait’s Underpainting For me, every painting starts with a first, rough underpainting. And when that goes well, I know the rest of the painting is going to go well too. This painting is starting off that way–you can see a...
Starting a Jack Russell Painting
Starting a Jack Russell Painting This is Roscoe, a lively Jack Russell Terrier with very expressive eyes. The painting will be an 8″ x 10″ so I’m focusing in on his cute little face with this sketch. My sketch process has evolved because of the way I...
Working on Chuckie the Bichon Frise Portrait
Working on Chuckie the Bichon Frise Portrait I’m still painting pretty loosely–just trying to get all the tones set up. But I’ve already worked in a more detailed way on his eyes–for me, getting the eyes set up right is the key to making the...
Stage One in a Bichon Frise Portrait
Stage One in a Bichon Frise Portrait I’ve started working on Chuckie’s portrait by laying in a loose, washy underpainting in acrylic thinned down with lots of water. My goal is to establish the basic colors, and to create a feeling of where the lights and...Visit my shop on Etsy to order commission a painting or to see art I currently have on sale.
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