Kevin Roeckl
- 3 days ago
- 1 min
Baxter portrait in progress 9 - Final decisions
Frank and Brian requested an 11 x 14 inch portrait. I always work on larger paper, and trim at the end. Usually I offer clients the...
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Kevin Roeckl
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Baxter portrait in progress 8 - Too many spots
I finished Baxter’s white paws today. In the reference photo I was using I saw what looked like two brown spots on the top of Baxter’s...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Sep 15
- 1 min
Baxter portrait in progress 5 - Even more colors...
Yesterday I shared a closeup of Baxter’s head with just a few of the many pencil colors I’m using to capture Baxter’s coat color. Here...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Baxter portrait in progress 3 - Not flat any more
Now you can see the difference colored pencil makes on the underpainting. It makes a flat image 3-dimensional. Baxter’s head done with...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Baxter portrait in progress 2 - moonstone paper
The gold underpainting for Baxter’s coat and purple underpainting for the blanket were done (see previous post), then I pressed the...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Sep 5
- 2 min
Baxter portrait in progress 1 - The underpainting
I'm starting a new portrait of Baxter, who is 12 years old. Some interesting facts about Baxter: ❤️ His dad Brian has a “Surgery Center“...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 15
- 3 min
Odie portrait finished!
When Robin was sharing photos of Odie with me for the portrait, she kept saying, “His eyes melt me” and “His face melts my heart”. I...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 12 - beach grass & sugar sand
I’m coming into the homestretch now. All that’s left to do is the beach grass and the path. Yesterday I shared a post showing how I made...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 11
- 2 min
Odie portrait in progress 11 - Thousands of pencil strokes
Odie’s body is finished. It took thousands of pencil strokes to do all the hairs of a Doberman coat on this large area of his neck,...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 9
Making Odie’s pink tongue with colored pencils. Prismacolor pencil over watercolor underpainting, on ivory Canson paper. See the first...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 4
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 8 - The nose knows
Odie’s nose is finished. Today I’m working on the mouth. The swatches show some of the pencil colors I’m using, on a scrap of the same...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 2
- 3 min
Odie portrait in progress 7 - "The windows to the soul"
After two days of work I finished Odie’s eyes. That took a lot of concentration. I’m happy with it so far. I think I captured his sweet...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 5
In the last two posts I showed you my watercolor underpainting, first on the background, then on the figure of Odie. The underpainting...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 4
I’ve put in an underpainting on Odie to give him a nice “red Dobe” base color to work on top of. I chose cream Canson paper for this...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Jul 25
- 1 min
Odie portrait in progress 3
I shared with you my process for doing the underpainting of the background scene, in my last post. I will also do an underpainting over...
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Kevin Roeckl
- May 18
- 1 min
A Blast from the Past
Well-known Doberman photographer Cheri McNealy, who brought my artwork to the attention of the Doberman community in 1991, recently...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 26
- 14 min
Nadia portrait in progress - start to finish
January 20 Starting a new portrait, for Katherine Belzowski, of her Grand Champion, Top Twenty Doberman “Nadia”. GCHS CH Belz Catch My...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 22
- 1 min
Nadia portrait finished!
This portrait features Grand Champion, Top Twenty Doberman "Nadia", GCHS CH Belz Catch My Breath WAC with professional handler Hernan...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Nadia portrait in progress 15
Yesterday I shared the pic of Nadia holding her dish, the fifth and final figure in Nadia‘s portrait. But the portrait is not finished...
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Kevin Roeckl
- Jan 28
- 2 min
Nadia portrait in progress 3
Yesterday I described why this first figure was done in softer colors, not true black. [See previous post.] Since I made Nadia’s rust...
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