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 24, 20231 min read
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 17, 20231 min read
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
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 21, 20231 min read
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
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 27, 20232 min read
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 23, 202326 min read
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 13, 20237 min read
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
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 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 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
Stephanie portrait in progress - start to finish
I’ve been laid up with an injury for several months and unable to work, so I decided to share some of my earlier portraits with you. This...
Kevin Roeckl
Jul 27, 20225 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 18
All that’s left to do is the river surface, which comprises most of the background of the 5 Remmys. The pics in this post were taken in...
Kevin Roeckl
Jun 27, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 17
All 6 Remmys - including his reflection - are in. Next I start on the river surface. After seeing the recent "in progress" pictures,...
Kevin Roeckl
May 25, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 16
The lower-right Remmy (the last one of 6) is finished. If you saw my previous posts, you know that this standing Remmy was from Walt’s...
Kevin Roeckl
May 24, 20221 min read
