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
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
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
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
"Grandma's Mirror"
This is a portrait from 2009. I was visiting Anne O. while her 3-year old grandson Maddox was there. I had come to photograph Anne’s...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 16, 20221 min read
