Kevin Roeckl
Sep 18, 20231 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 6 - Pink-grey looks white?
Baxter’s golden coat finished. Tomorrow I’ll do his white front paws. It’s funny, this is on “moonstone” paper, which is a pinkish grey —...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 15, 20231 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 5 - Even more colors...
Yesterday I shared a closeup of Baxter’s head with just a few of the many pencil colors I’m using to capture Baxter’s coat color. Here...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 14, 20231 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 4 - So many interesting colors!
Baxter has all kinds of interesting colors in his coat. Prismacolor pencil on “moonstone” Canson paper.
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 12, 20231 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 3 - Not flat any more
Now you can see the difference colored pencil makes on the underpainting. It makes a flat image 3-dimensional. Baxter’s head done with...
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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
Sep 7, 20231 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 2 - moonstone paper
The gold underpainting for Baxter’s coat and purple underpainting for the blanket were done (see previous post), then I pressed the...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 5, 20232 min read
Baxter portrait in progress 1 - The underpainting
I'm starting a new portrait of Baxter, who is 12 years old. Some interesting facts about Baxter: ❤️ His dad Brian has a “Surgery Center“...
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Kevin Roeckl
Sep 2, 20238 min read
Jet portrait in progress - start to finish
May 20 I’m starting a new Border Collie portrait. This will be the 3rd one I’ve done for Cathy N. Prismacolor pencil on "Felt Grey"...
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Kevin Roeckl
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Parker and Layla
A memory from 2013.... "Parker and Layla" portrait in progress. Many fans of my pet portraits don't know that I do humans too. I started...
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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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Kevin Roeckl
Jul 26, 20231 min read
Odie portrait in progress 5
In the last two posts I showed you my watercolor underpainting, first on the background, then on the figure of Odie. The underpainting...
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