Kevin Roeckl
Jan 21, 20232 min read
Nadia portrait in progress 1
Starting a new portrait, for Katherine Belzowski, of her Grand Champion, Top Twenty Doberman “Nadia”. GCHS CH Belz Catch My Breath WAC...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait finished!
My friend Jason braved rain, ice, and snow to deliver the finished portrait to Karen, 3 hours away. Karen wrote: “Kevin!!! I could not...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 16, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 20
The last thing I do before I consider an artwork finished, is tape it up on the wall, stand back at the distance the client will see it...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 14, 20237 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 12, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 18
Continuing to work on the “Rio hugging” figures. Three days on Karen’s hands and arms. A lot of fine detail there. These are the pencil...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 17
These final figures, of the 6 figures in Karen’s triple portrait, are a work of art in themselves. Every body-part of these figures - in...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 6, 20237 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 16
Working on "hugging Rio's" face. I’m spending a lot of time on the details of his face, as I did on Karen’s. Although neither of their...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 3, 20232 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jan 2, 20231 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 14
I'm working on the "Rio and Karen hugging" figures.The photo that I'm working from was taken years ago. Karen had a different hairstyle...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 30, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 13
Now putting in the teeth with colored pencils on the grey paper. This is the third head study in Karen's portrait…Rio. There is a lot of...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 23, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 12
Cooper’s orange Search-and-Rescue collar is finished, and I’ve started on the third head study: Rio. Putting together the eye… This shows...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 21, 20223 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 11
Addie, the second head study in Karen’s triple portrait, is finished. I ask my client to tell me about their loved one before I work on...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 14, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 10
Three days of work in the studio are shown in this post... 1 Cooper’s head is finished, now I’m working on Addie’s ears. This shows the...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 11, 20223 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 9
I spent an entire workday just on Cooper's eyes and eyebrows. The eyes are the most important part of any portrait.... The next day......
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 7, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 8
A dark blue blue pencil flipped out of my hand while I was working on Cooper’s head and landed point-down on the mountain. Damn. Don’t...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 6, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 7
Working on Cooper’s head, putting in both sides of the face. Usually I do the ears and forehead, then left eyebrow and eye, and work my...
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Kevin Roeckl
Dec 4, 20222 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 25, 20222 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 5
These photos show the progression of standing-Cooper’s face in one day’s work in the studio. This is another one of those heads where the...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 18, 20221 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 4
Now that the underpainting is in, and I’ve peeled off the masking material protecting the figures (leaving me nice virgin grey Canson...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 17, 20221 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,...
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