Daisy portrait in progress 1
- Kevin Roeckl
- Aug 2
- 2 min read
I fell so far behind posting Wishes’ and Raven’s portraits that I didn’t get a chance to show you another one I finished in the meantime. This is Daisy, a 2-year-old mixed breed rescue, owned by Kathy and Mark H. For Christmas 2024 Mark gifted Kathy with the promise of a portrait of Daisy. (I provide a custom Gift Certificate to give on the occasion.) This is the second portrait I’ve done for them.
The first portrait I created for Kathy and Mark was in 2019. A portrait of Summer, Brandy, Bacon (Cavalier King Charles Spaniels) and Butters the cat.
This portrait is an example of my “Little Jewel” portrait type, a simple portrait done in a looser style when the client’s photos don’t have much detail. It’s my most economical portrait, a popular portrait choice for people to give as gifts.
Below is the first “in progress” scan I made of Daisy’s portrait when I started working on it. I was able to visit and meet Daisy in person. It’s unusual for me to work for a local client and be able to meet the actual dog. She is very sweet and affectionate. When I sat on the couch she got up next to me and wanted to hold my hand with her paw. But she was on the front porch doing her job, protecting her family from strangers, when I first arrived. Just as you would expect from a mixed-breed who has Malinois in her heritage. Good girl, Daisy!
It really helped to have the chance to observe Daisy's coat color in real life. I memorized the color in my mind when I was with her. Daisy’s coat is an interesting color that’s not exactly like any Prismacolor pencil color. Kind of a caramel color: something between yellow ochre and rust, with a sprinkling of other color hairs in it. It took a variety of pencil colors to capture it. I’ll show you all my “working pencils” in my next post.
🎨 Prismacolor pencil on “Steel Blue” Canson Mi-Teintes paper, 12 x 16 inches.
Commissioned by Mark H. as a gift for his wife Kathy.
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