Lacy portrait in progress 2 - More layouts...
In my previous post I shared 8 rough layouts that I had created for Betty K. She chose her favorite, but that wasn't the final layout....
Kevin Roeckl
Oct 19, 20232 min read
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Lacy portrait in progress 1 - Layouts: which is your favorite?
I’m starting a new portrait of Lacy for Betty K. Here are 8 possible rough-draft layouts. Which is your favorite one? Lacy loved the...
Kevin Roeckl
Oct 19, 20232 min read
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"Dash Away"
Recently I shared the first two Doberman paintings I ever did, inspired by my beautiful Jake. “Dash Away” is the third. Unlike those...
Kevin Roeckl
Oct 3, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress - start to finish
July 8 My next portrait is Odin (“Odie man”) for Robin B. As Robin was gathering photos and sending them to me, she kept saying, “His...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 28, 202311 min read
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Odie arrived today!
The portrait of Odie arrived safely in Florida today. I always feel a wave of relief when a portrait I've worked on for weeks crosses...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 10, 20231 min read
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"Reflection"
Recently I shared the first Doberman painting I ever created, “Self Portrait with Jake, 1991” along with Jake's amazing life story. This...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 23, 20232 min read
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Odie portrait finished!
When Robin was sharing photos of Odie with me for the portrait, she kept saying, “His eyes melt me” and “His face melts my heart”. I...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 13 - a special place
Beach-grass and path finished. When we were designing the portrait and thinking about the background, Robin told me that she and her...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 13, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 12 - beach grass & sugar sand
I’m coming into the homestretch now. All that’s left to do is the beach grass and the path. Yesterday I shared a post showing how I made...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 11 - Thousands of pencil strokes
Odie’s body is finished. It took thousands of pencil strokes to do all the hairs of a Doberman coat on this large area of his neck,...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20232 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 10 - What color is a nose?
A red Doberman’s nose is an interesting color. Is it grey? Mauve? Brown? Actually it’s all of those…and more. See if you can pick out...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 7, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 9
Making Odie’s pink tongue with colored pencils. Prismacolor pencil over watercolor underpainting, on ivory Canson paper. See the first...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 5, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 8 - The nose knows
Odie’s nose is finished. Today I’m working on the mouth. The swatches show some of the pencil colors I’m using, on a scrap of the same...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 4, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 7 - "The windows to the soul"
After two days of work I finished Odie’s eyes. That took a lot of concentration. I’m happy with it so far. I think I captured his sweet...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 2, 20233 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 6 - those "Odie eyes"
In the studio today: All those Odie eyes looking at me from the monitor! 😄 I’ve been working on Odie’s eyes for the past two days. The...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 29, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 5
In the last two posts I showed you my watercolor underpainting, first on the background, then on the figure of Odie. The underpainting...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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A special memory of Louie
In 2021 I created a portrait of Louie for Dean J. in 2021. Today Dean sent this photo of the portrait with sad news about Louie’s...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 4
I’ve put in an underpainting on Odie to give him a nice “red Dobe” base color to work on top of. I chose cream Canson paper for this...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 3
I shared with you my process for doing the underpainting of the background scene, in my last post. I will also do an underpainting over...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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Odie portrait in progress 2 - watercolor techniques
Odie will be in a beach scene that is meaningful to clients Robin and Mike, a favorite vacation spot. He is not allowed on the beach so...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 22, 20232 min read
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