Kevin Roeckl
Sep 15, 20231 min
Yesterday I shared a closeup of Baxter’s head with just a few of the many pencil colors I’m using to capture Baxter’s coat color. Here are the swatches I made to guide me on how the different colors look on this “moonstone” paper.
I studied many of Brian and Frank’s photos of Baxter to understand the color of his coat.
Frank took a couple shots of Baxter laying on their dry lawn this summer and pointed that out. And parts of his coat have grey and brown — like the dark “mask” on his forehead. So that required many shades of light and dark mushroom-brown (brownish grey) shading into golds and golden browns, with touches of mauve-grey, as well as blue-grey in a few shadowed places.
As I commented yesterday when I shared the close-up: so many interesting colors in Baxter’s coat!
I'm working on Baxter’s body adding colored pencil detail. That’s still just the underpainting on the right foreleg.