Nadia portrait in progress 8
See that darker square behind Nadia’s front feet? Canson, the company that makes this beautiful art paper, started putting bar-code...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 13, 20232 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 7
There are a lot of shapes in a Doberman’s coat. In this picture you can see my sketch lines on Nadia’s body. All those strange,...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 9, 20232 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 6
Working on stacked-Nadia’s face. Now you can start to see my strategy of keeping the other figures pale and lighter than normal, with...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 3, 20231 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 5
Hernan’s elegant white tuxedo finished. Like the upper left Nadia figure, I’m making Hernan paler and lighter than normal. The black...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 3
Yesterday I described why this first figure was done in softer colors, not true black. [See previous post.] Since I made Nadia’s rust...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Cooper Addie, and Rio portrait in progress - start to finish
October 15 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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 23, 202326 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 2
In my last post I presented the problem of how to put together Katherine’s three unrelated photos of Nadia. Free-stacked Nadia in the...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 1
Starting a new portrait, for Katherine Belzowski, of her Grand Champion, Top Twenty Doberman “Nadia”. GCHS CH Belz Catch My Breath WAC...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 20, 20232 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait finished!
My friend Jason braved rain, ice, and snow to deliver the finished portrait to Karen, 3 hours away. Karen wrote: “Kevin!!! I could not...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 20
The last thing I do before I consider an artwork finished, is tape it up on the wall, stand back at the distance the client will see it...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 16, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 19
The “Rio hugging” figures are finished. Now I have a lot of grass to do. And the shoulders of Cooper and Rio’s head studies where they...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 13, 20237 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 18
Continuing to work on the “Rio hugging” figures. Three days on Karen’s hands and arms. A lot of fine detail there. These are the pencil...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 12, 20231 min read
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
