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Cooper Addie, and Rio portrait in progress - start to finish

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 24
26 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait finished!

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 18
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 20

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 16
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 19

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 14
7 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 18

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 12
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 17

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 11
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 16

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 6
7 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 15

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 3
2 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 14

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 2
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 13

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 30, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 12

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 23, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 11

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 21, 2022
3 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 10

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 14, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 9

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 11, 2022
3 min

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......

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 8

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 7, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 7

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 6, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 6

Kevin Roeckl

Dec 4, 2022
2 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 5

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 25, 2022
2 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 4

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 18, 2022
1 min

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...

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Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 3

Kevin Roeckl

Nov 17, 2022
1 min

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,...

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