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Cooper portrait in progress 3 - Starting at the top...

Kevin Roeckl

Apr 61 min read

Cooper portrait in progress 3 - Starting at the top...

In my last post I shared some of the unusual paper colors I was considering for Cooper’s portrait. It was fun to read your contrasting...

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Cooper portrait in progress 2 - Some wild colors

Kevin Roeckl

Apr 51 min read

Cooper portrait in progress 2 - Some wild colors

I picked out some unusual paper colors to do Cooper’s portrait, a surprise gift from Maura Reilly to Diane and Michael Schurman. I felt...

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Popeye portrait in progress - start to finish

Kevin Roeckl

Apr 44 min read

Popeye portrait in progress - start to finish

February 17 Annie W. contacted me for a portrait of her three Dobermans but instead we’re starting on a portrait of her horse Popeye. I...

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Kevin Roeckl

Mar 311 min read

Briscoe portrait finished!

This is the 10th portrait I’ve done for this household since 1996. Two Border Collies, five Dobermans, two Old English Sheepdogs, and a...

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Briscoe portrait in progress 7 - Portrait addiction

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 231 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 7 - Portrait addiction

Continuing work on Briscoe’s portrait. His face finished and now adding the fringes of hair at the sides with about a dozen shades of...

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Briscoe portrait in progress 6 - The surprising colors of a tongue

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 231 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 6 - The surprising colors of a tongue

With the mouth and chin finished, Briscoe’s smiling face has really come to life. There were some tricky colors in the tongue. You might...

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Briscoe portrait in progress 5 - Smile emerging...

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 201 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 5 - Smile emerging...

Briscoe's smile emerging out of the grey. This photo taken in the studio with my colored pencils gives a sense of how large Briscoe is in...

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Kevin Roeckl

Mar 191 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 4

The next thing to emerge is Briscoe’s nose…. Then I continue filling in his white muzzle around it - lots of little white hairs on the...

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Briscoe portrait in progress 3 - How to make an eye

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 191 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 3 - How to make an eye

People are always amazed at how lifelike the eyes look in my artwork... They are just shapes and colors. If an artist can copy those...

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Briscoe portrait in progress 2 - Eyes bring life

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 161 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 2 - Eyes bring life

Now working on Briscoe's eyes…. Eyes bring life to a portrait. Prismacolor pencil on grey Canson paper 18 x 23 inches

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Kevin Roeckl

Mar 151 min read

Briscoe portrait in progress 1

Starting a portrait of Briscoe, a Border Collie and the heart dog of Gloria K. The first thing I saw when I began working on Briscoe was...

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Kevin Roeckl

Mar 61 min read

Popeye portrait finished!

Popeye is a horse with a special story. When Annie contacted me about a portrait she wanted to portray her Dobermans, but we ended up...

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Popeye portrait in progress 7 - A color surprise...

Kevin Roeckl

Mar 11 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 7 - A color surprise...

Even with my trained eye, sometimes colors surprise me. In Annie’s photo it looks like a pink patch inside Popeye’s nostril. But want to...

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Popeye portrait in progress 6 - I begged my parents for a horse

Kevin Roeckl

Feb 281 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 6 - I begged my parents for a horse

I think one more day’s work will finish this portrait. I have loved horses all my life. All through my childhood I begged my parents for...

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Popeye portrait in progress 5 - What is a complement?

Kevin Roeckl

Feb 251 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 5 - What is a complement?

I added Popeye’s neck and am working on the halter, which has some blue sections in it. The blue ribbon, halter, and blue paper make a...

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Kevin Roeckl

Feb 221 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 4 - The eye

The eye is always so important in a portrait. And Popeye has such a sweet, intelligent eye. A close-up of the eye so you can see how it...

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Popeye portrait in progress 3 - Judging pencil colors

Kevin Roeckl

Feb 211 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 3 - Judging pencil colors

Today’s work, with a scrap of paper with pencil colors on it to show me how they look on that light-blue paper. This “Steel blue” is a...

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Kevin Roeckl

Feb 191 min read

Popeye portrait in progress 2

I am off and running with the first day's work on a Head Study of “Popeye” for Annie W. Prismacolor pencil on “Steel blue” Canson paper...

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Rare portrait in progress - start to finish

Kevin Roeckl

Jan 304 min read

Rare portrait in progress - start to finish

January 5 I'm starting a new grisaille portrait of red Doberman “Rare” for Katie G. Grisaille (pronounced greez-EYE) is a single-color...

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Kevin Roeckl

Jan 272 min read

Rare portrait finished!

Finished grisaille portrait of Rare for Katie G. "RARE" CH Old Drum’s Vintage Whiskey Ridge CGC NAJ ROM WAC SCN SHDN March 2, 2011 - May...

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