Briscoe portrait finished!
This is the 10th portrait I’ve done for this household since 1996. Two Border Collies, five Dobermans, two Old English Sheepdogs, and a...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 31, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 7 - Portrait addiction
Continuing work on Briscoe’s portrait. His face finished and now adding the fringes of hair at the sides with about a dozen shades of...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 23, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 6 - The surprising colors of a tongue
With the mouth and chin finished, Briscoe’s smiling face has really come to life. There were some tricky colors in the tongue. You might...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 22, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 5 - Smile emerging...
Briscoe's smile emerging out of the grey. This photo taken in the studio with my colored pencils gives a sense of how large Briscoe is in...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 20, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 4
The next thing to emerge is Briscoe’s nose…. Then I continue filling in his white muzzle around it - lots of little white hairs on the...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 19, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 3 - How to make an eye
People are always amazed at how lifelike the eyes look in my artwork... They are just shapes and colors. If an artist can copy those...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 18, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 2 - Eyes bring life
Now working on Briscoe's eyes…. Eyes bring life to a portrait. Prismacolor pencil on grey Canson paper 18 x 23 inches
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 16, 20241 min read
Briscoe portrait in progress 1
Starting a portrait of Briscoe, a Border Collie and the heart dog of Gloria K. The first thing I saw when I began working on Briscoe was...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 14, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait finished!
Popeye is a horse with a special story. When Annie contacted me about a portrait she wanted to portray her Dobermans, but we ended up...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 5, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 7 - A color surprise...
Even with my trained eye, sometimes colors surprise me. In Annie’s photo it looks like a pink patch inside Popeye’s nostril. But want to...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 29, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 6 - I begged my parents for a horse
I think one more day’s work will finish this portrait. I have loved horses all my life. All through my childhood I begged my parents for...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 5 - What is a complement?
I added Popeye’s neck and am working on the halter, which has some blue sections in it. The blue ribbon, halter, and blue paper make a...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 24, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 4 - The eye
The eye is always so important in a portrait. And Popeye has such a sweet, intelligent eye. A close-up of the eye so you can see how it...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 21, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 3 - Judging pencil colors
Today’s work, with a scrap of paper with pencil colors on it to show me how they look on that light-blue paper. This “Steel blue” is a...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 20, 20241 min read
Popeye portrait in progress 2
I am off and running with the first day's work on a Head Study of “Popeye” for Annie W. Prismacolor pencil on “Steel blue” Canson paper...
Kevin Roeckl
Feb 19, 20241 min read
Rare portrait in progress - start to finish
January 5 I'm starting a new grisaille portrait of red Doberman “Rare” for Katie G. Grisaille (pronounced greez-EYE) is a single-color...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 30, 20244 min read
Rare portrait finished!
Finished grisaille portrait of Rare for Katie G. "RARE" CH Old Drum’s Vintage Whiskey Ridge CGC NAJ ROM WAC SCN SHDN March 2, 2011 - May...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 27, 20242 min read
Rare portrait in progress 6 - The intensity
If you’ve been following this portrait you know scent-work was Rare’s passion. I didn’t notice until I got to her face that her nose is...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 21, 20242 min read
Rare portrait in progress 5 - Five colors
I wanted to share this close-up since you don’t usually get to see the pencil strokes in small online pics of the whole artwork. This is...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 18, 20241 min read
Rare portrait in progress 4 - Floating
Just have Rare’s face to finish. Capturing the expression on her face is the most important part. If you have been reading my previous...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 16, 20241 min read
