by Hope Lane | Jul 25, 2015 | Blog
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...
by Hope Lane | Jul 14, 2015 | Blog
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...
by Hope Lane | May 31, 2015 | Blog
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...
by Hope Lane | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog
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...
by Hope Lane | Mar 8, 2015 | Blog
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...