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| Initial sketch |
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| Dog outline masked, then play with background |
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| First glazes on dog |
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| Close up |
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| Many, many thin glazes to build up coat texture |
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| More texture, and some face detail |
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| It's there, in essence, but needs depth. This is where Anne's help came into play. |
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| Finished |
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| Senorita Cindy |
This portrait took much longer than I had anticipated. True, I did want to go slowly with her coat's glazes, to achieve a sense of wooly depth. But I also suffered my usual dose of the "winter megrims", and quite often did not feel like painting. [or anything else]
Cindy was painted with my favorite animal colors - quin. burnt orange, quin. violet and indanthrone blue. The background grass was glazes and sponges of aureolin, phthalo. green, quin. gold, quin. burnt orange and indanthrone blue.
I must add, at one point near the completion of the painting, I contacted Anne Zoutos, a painter who creates marvellous dog portraits. I took her advice, and it has really helped the painting. Thank you very much, Anne!!!
This portrait is excellent, I appreciate you showing the steps you take, and sharing the color choices.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful - and I like how you show the steps. Glazing makes the difference! Congrats on your inclusion in the Guild of Realism (from prior post).
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful! Truly you've captured her character here. :) Great job.
ReplyDeleteA wonderful portrait, Kathryn! It was worth the wait! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeletehow fun (at least it looks that way!) it turned out wonderful
ReplyDeleteI so enjoyed seeing your process with this one! Lovely portrait and just painterly enough to not be harshly photorealistic.
ReplyDeleteThanks also for stopping by my blog, I always love hearing from you.
Looking really great.
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