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
"Autumn River" (print available)
In honor of Fall, I’d like to share my watercolor, “Autumn River”. The original painting was displayed at the 1992 Doberman Pinscher Club...
Kevin Roeckl
Oct 3, 20221 min read
Remmy portrait finished!
Remmy came into Walt and Frann’s life at the age of 8, a rescue who had lived a very hard life. It took months of patience and dedication...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 23
I’m at the final stage of Remmy’s portrait, where I tape it up on the wall of my studio and stand back to see if anything needs to be...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 23, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 22
Yesterday’s work and today’s.... Adding the grass under lower-right Remmy. It’s slow going since I can only work short periods of time....
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 21, 20221 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 21
I'm adding the grass under the two lower Remmys. “Red-ball Remmy” (in the lower left corner) is finished. The patch of grass under...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 17, 20221 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 20
You may remember the portrait of Remmy I was working on through Feb and March. After an injury in March I had to close down my studio...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 15, 20221 min read
Portrait of Daisy Bleu
I’ve been laid up with an injury since April, unable to work, so I am sharing some of my earlier portraits with you. This is Daisy Bleu,...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20221 min read
Portrait of Jake
In March I had a serious injury and I haven’t been able to work for several months. See my July 16 post So I thought I would start...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 18, 20222 min read
