Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Remmy portrait in progress 7
I've filled in the river background across the upper part of the portrait, and now working on the upper-right Remmy head. I need to do...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Remmy portrait in progress 6
I’ve been working on the background river scene — the trees and sky. This post shows how I get a nice light-blue sky on darker grey paper...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 17, 2022
- 1 min
Remmy portrait in progress 5
Here’s Remmy’s Pig, hidden in the bushes of the riverbank. Right where Remmy left it. Now I’m working my way across the river background...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Remmy portrait in progress 4
In the background of this portrait is something you didn’t see in my layout, but is very important to have in the portrait... Remmy’s Pig...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
Remmy portrait in progress 3
The upper left head of Remmy is finished down to the collar. His shoulders and chest will fade out into the background scene. So I have...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Remmy portrait in progress 2
This portrait has 5 depictions of Remmy (two head studies and 3 full-body) on a river scene, with the center Remmy splashing joyfully...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 6, 2022
- 5 min
Remmy portrait in progress 1
I've been working for more than a month on just the preparation stages of a very complex, and very special portrait. For Walter Da Ponte...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 29, 2021
- 9 min
Chloe portrait in progress - start to finish
November 11 Starting a portrait of red Doberman Chloe leaping into the Trinity River. It is a birthday gift from Doug Paul to his wife...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait finished!
Finished the portrait of Chloe today. This portrait is a birthday gift from Doug Paul to his wife Cherie. It shows their “crazy redhead”...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 12
Took this pic at the end of my workday today. My studio shots usually have most of the artwork covered up with white paper to protect it...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 11
Working on the sky reflections in the lower right of the portrait. The part I was working on when I took this shot is below and to the...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 10
In full swing with all my pencil colors out for pale-blue sky reflections on the river, the river-water colors and reflections of the...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 3, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 9
The portrait with Chloe and the ball-splash finished. Now all I have to do is the surface of the river. After seeing the latest updates,...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 8
All the pencil colors I’m going to use for Chloe, a red Doberman. Some of the brighter oranges will be for places where the bright...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 7
This is the ball-splash from an orange ball entering the water. There are two very important elements in this portrait of Chloe leaping...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 6
I’m adding the amazing turquoise color the rivers have in Humboldt County, in northern California. Fishermen call that color "steelhead...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 5
I’ve finished the rocks and cliffs. That took me a couple days longer than I expected it would. As I worked my way along the waterline I...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 4
Today I added details to the rock on the left side of the river, and started working my way across the right-side rocks and cliffs,...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
Chloe portrait in progress 3
Now you can see why I did the underpainting. This is a close-up of the upper left corner of the painting, where there is a forested...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Chloe portrait in progress 2
I masked off the figure of Chloe to add the base color of the river with a smooth watercolor wash. That gives me a nice green base on...
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