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This certainly went to the right home! After I shared a picture of this artwork a few weeks ago, Rose H. contacted me about purchasing it. She wrote: "I was born in Brookings Oregon but lived in Texas for 13 years. I had golden hair and beautiful tan skin. I was the Yellow Rose of Texas growing up.” So you can understand why Rose was excited about acquiring this piece. She sent me this photo after she received it. “Yellow Rose of Texas” in it’s new home. 🎨 Prismacolor penci

Here are "black Doberman" and "red Doberman" versions of my Valentine to you. ❤️ Free for my followers to share. If you are on Facebook, you can share both versions from my FACEBOOK page . 🎨 This artwork was created from an original pen-and-ink drawing, hand-colored in Photoshop. Original artwork ©Kevin Roeckl

Even when a portrait is “finished” there are changes to be made. An artist may think a portrait is finished when they complete the depiction….but is it? When I finished Titan’s portrait I stood back and looked at it taped up on the wall from several feet away. That’s always the last step when I complete a portrait. Sometimes I see things that need a little adjustment. Usually that’s just a few additonal pencil strokes…a few minutes work. But this time I spent a couple more da

After I finished Titan’s paws, I drew the toy. The well-loved tug toy. Then I finished the shadows under the toy and paws on the fabric. Whenever a figure is resting on a surface in art, there will always be a shadow that "connects" them to the surface. Otherwise it will look like they are "pasted on" the surface, or sometimes floating above it. I could have cleaned up the toy, but I thought it would be better to show that it was well-loved....yet another indication of the p

Completing Titan’s paws… Drawing a hand or paw is as complex and detailed as the features of a face, in my opinion. Upper pic - Going around the edges, building all the edge colors, before filling in all those weird abstract shapes that make up the paw and wrist. FOR ARTISTS: I fill those containing edge colors of the paw first, so I can establish the values (lightness-darkness) of the paw colors against that blue-grey paper. Then work inward, filling in the abstract shapes o