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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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 15, 20223 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Nov 5, 20222 min read
Cooper, Addie, and Rio portrait in progress 1
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 the Bridge...
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Kevin Roeckl
Oct 6, 202229 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait finished!
Remmy came into Walt and Frann’s life at the age of 8, a rescue who had lived a very hard life. It took months of patience and dedication...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 23, 20222 min read
Remmy portrait in progress 23
I’m at the final stage of Remmy’s portrait, where I tape it up on the wall of my studio and stand back to see if anything needs to be...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 22, 20221 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....
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 18, 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 16, 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 16, 20221 min read
"Grandma's Mirror"
This is a portrait from 2009. I was visiting Anne O. while her 3-year old grandson Maddox was there. I had come to photograph Anne’s...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 11, 20221 min read
Portrait of Daisy Bleu
I’ve been laid up with an injury since April, unable to work, so I am sharing some of my earlier portraits with you. This is Daisy Bleu,...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jul 27, 20225 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jul 18, 20222 min read
Portrait of Jake
In March I had a serious injury and I haven’t been able to work for several months. See my July 16 post So I thought I would start...
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Kevin Roeckl
Jun 28, 20222 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...
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Kevin Roeckl
May 25, 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,...
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