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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 17

These final figures, of the 6 figures in Karen’s triple portrait, are a work of art in themselves. Every body-part of these figures - in...

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 11, 20231 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 16

Working on "hugging Rio's" face. I’m spending a lot of time on the details of his face, as I did on Karen’s. Although neither of their...

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 5, 20237 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 15

Spent a while on Karen‘s face. Although it doesn’t have the challenge of two eyes and eyebrows, all the features of a typical portrait...

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 3, 20232 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 14

I'm working on the "Rio and Karen hugging" figures.The photo that I'm working from was taken years ago. Karen had a different hairstyle...

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 2, 20231 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 13

Now putting in the teeth with colored pencils on the grey paper. This is the third head study in Karen's portrait…Rio. There is a lot of...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 29, 20221 min read

My Custom Christmas cards - 12 favorites

From 2000 to 2009 I created custom Christmas cards for clients from their own photos of their pets, with Photoshop. For the 12 days of...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 22, 20223 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 12

Cooper’s orange Search-and-Rescue collar is finished, and I’ve started on the third head study: Rio. Putting together the eye… This shows...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 22, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 11

Addie, the second head study in Karen’s triple portrait, is finished. I ask my client to tell me about their loved one before I work on...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 20, 20223 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 10

Three days of work in the studio are shown in this post... 1 Cooper’s head is finished, now I’m working on Addie’s ears. This shows the...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 14, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 9

I spent an entire workday just on Cooper's eyes and eyebrows. The eyes are the most important part of any portrait.... The next day......

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 11, 20223 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 8

A dark blue blue pencil flipped out of my hand while I was working on Cooper’s head and landed point-down on the mountain. Damn. Don’t...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 7, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 7

Working on Cooper’s head, putting in both sides of the face. Usually I do the ears and forehead, then left eyebrow and eye, and work my...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 6, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 6

Working on the mountain, with some pinks and muted lavender-greys. (Indicated by the bracket.) Putting in the details over the...

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 3, 20222 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 5

These photos show the progression of standing-Cooper’s face in one day’s work in the studio. This is another one of those heads where the...

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 25, 20222 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 4

Now that the underpainting is in, and I’ve peeled off the masking material protecting the figures (leaving me nice virgin grey Canson...

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 18, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 3

A couple days ago I shared the steps of masking off the dogs’ heads and the left figure, and doing the underpainting of mountain, lake,...

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 17, 20221 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 2

Putting in the underpainting of the background scene, on a rainy day. The pine tree on the left was done first with colored pencils. Then...

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 15, 20223 min read

Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 1

I’m working on a new portrait for Karen M. who has had 3 trained Search-and-Rescue dogs: Cooper, Addie, and Rio…all gone to the Bridge...

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 5, 20222 min read

An Autumn mystery...

Paula B. sent this photo and said, “I was wondering if you could tell me the story behind this gorgeous picture, which I have been lucky...

Kevin Roeckl

Oct 26, 20222 min read

Remmy portrait in progress - start to finish

February 28 I've been working for more than a month on just the preparation stages of a very complex, and very special portrait. For...

Kevin Roeckl

Oct 6, 202229 min read

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