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...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 12, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 7, 20231 min read
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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“...
Kevin Roeckl
Sep 5, 20232 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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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,...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20232 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 5, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 4, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Aug 2, 20233 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 26, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
May 18, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 26, 202314 min read
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Nadia portrait finished!
This portrait features Grand Champion, Top Twenty Doberman "Nadia", GCHS CH Belz Catch My Breath WAC with professional handler Hernan...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 22, 20231 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Mar 7, 20232 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 28, 20232 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 24, 202326 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 14, 20237 min read
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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...
Kevin Roeckl
Jan 3, 20232 min read
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