Kevin Roeckl
Apr 19, 20243 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 8 - Tools of the artist's life
I wanted to share a few of the photos I took while working in the studio over the course of Cooper’s portrait. With some...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 15, 20242 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 7 - Color swatches help the artist
I'm working my way down Cooper's body. This photo, taken in the studio while I was working, shows his body in progress with the pencil...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 6
Cooper's blue collar added. I could have made the collar any color, but blue worked well with the colors in this portrait. To make these...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 5 - Emerging...
1 Now that Cooper’s face is emerging, you can see why I wanted a background color that is a bit “wild”. 2 Cooper’s face completed. It was...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 9, 20241 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 4 - The perfect color
Cooper’s face beginning to emerge. This was definitely the right background color for Cooper. He is starting to pop out nicely. Colored...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 6, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 5, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 5, 20244 min read
Cooper portrait in progress 1 - A surprise
I'm starting another portrait of a Doberman with a special story. Maura Reilly asked if she could get on my wait list for a portrait of...
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Kevin Roeckl
Apr 4, 20244 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 31, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 23, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 23, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 20, 20241 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 19, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 19, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 16, 20241 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 15, 20241 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 6, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Mar 1, 20241 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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Kevin Roeckl
Feb 28, 20241 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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