by Hope Lane | 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...
by Hope Lane | 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...
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 | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog
Daisy’s Portrait, the Underpainting This is the first layer of paint as I start on Daisy’s portrait. My goal at this point, is to capture the feeling of volume in the form by defining areas of dark, light and midtone. I also try to establish the local...