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A Cavalier For Christmas Stage 2

A Cavalier For Christmas Stage 2

by | 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...
A Cavalier For Christmas

A Cavalier For Christmas

by | 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...
German Shepherd Portrait Stage 2

German Shepherd Portrait Stage 2

by | Oct 1, 2016 | Blog

German Shepherd Portrait Stage 2 With most of my paintings I like to work in an overall way, roughing in the paint across the whole canvas. So I use a big brush to block in all the paint first. Then I start adding the detail in layers over the first paint layer. Each...
Bridging the Distance With Diesel

Bridging the Distance With Diesel

by | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog

Bridging the Distance With Diesel Diesel is a handsome German Shepherd who’s an active boy and loves to fetch balls. Sadly his “dad” was going to be separated from him for quite a while, so his “mom” decided a to have a portrait of Diesel...