Kevin Roeckl
Nov 11, 20231 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 7 - Lacy in the sky
Now I’m starting on Lacy’s head in the beautiful sky. This shows part of the whole portrait, which is a double portrait with Lacy...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 9, 20231 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 6 - Important clouds
The clouds are finished. They are a very important part of this piece. An important part of what makes the colors and the scene. A...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 3, 20231 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 5 - What a difference colored pencil makes!
After the underpainting was done and all the ripples pressed out of the paper, I'm now working with colored pencil for the rest of the...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 4 - A challenge on grey
I’ve finished the underpainting on Lacy’s portrait. The Canson paper I chose for this artwork is called “Pearl”, a soft warm grey. My...
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Kevin Roeckl
Oct 28, 20232 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 3 - A hard decision
Now that layout decisions have been made, I decided what color Canson paper I’m going to work on, and pulled the sheet of Canson out of...
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Kevin Roeckl
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 2 - More layouts...
In my previous post I shared 8 rough layouts that I had created for Betty K. She chose her favorite, but that wasn't the final layout....
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Kevin Roeckl
Oct 19, 20232 min read
Lacy portrait in progress 1 - Layouts: which is your favorite?
I’m starting a new portrait of Lacy for Betty K. Here are 8 possible rough-draft layouts. Which is your favorite one? Lacy loved the...
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Kevin Roeckl
Oct 3, 20231 min read
"Dash Away"
Recently I shared the first two Doberman paintings I ever did, inspired by my beautiful Jake. “Dash Away” is the third. Unlike those...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 28, 202311 min read
Odie portrait in progress - start to finish
July 8 My next portrait is Odin (“Odie man”) for Robin B. As Robin was gathering photos and sending them to me, she kept saying, “His...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 10, 20231 min read
Odie arrived today!
The portrait of Odie arrived safely in Florida today. I always feel a wave of relief when a portrait I've worked on for weeks crosses...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 23, 20232 min read
"Reflection"
Recently I shared the first Doberman painting I ever created, “Self Portrait with Jake, 1991” along with Jake's amazing life story. This...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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 13, 20231 min read
Odie portrait in progress 13 - a special place
Beach-grass and path finished. When we were designing the portrait and thinking about the background, Robin told me that she and her...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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 7, 20231 min read
Odie portrait in progress 10 - What color is a nose?
A red Doberman’s nose is an interesting color. Is it grey? Mauve? Brown? Actually it’s all of those…and more. See if you can pick out...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 5, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20233 min read
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 29, 20231 min read
Odie portrait in progress 6 - those "Odie eyes"
In the studio today: All those Odie eyes looking at me from the monitor! 😄 I’ve been working on Odie’s eyes for the past two days. The...
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