Painting has been a wonderful escape this week. It has given me something to focus on other than overwhelming feelings of anxiety and sadness. The losses suffered this year are not something that can be easily overcome. This events of this year have certainly left a lasting mark. Painting still brings me joy however so…
Tag: Dog portrait
Getting Back to Gouache
At the beginning of this week I wasn’t sure if I would have anything to post. Since completing my last painting I didn’t know what to do with myself. On one hand, I want to get back into oil painting. On the other, I wanted to just continue on with gouache painting. As sometimes happens…
Shanzi: Repainted
This is a painting of my old dog, Shanzi, and probably one of my favorite paintings to date. I absolutely love how it turned out and wouldn’t change a thing. I feel like doing the 30 in 30 challenge has really paid off in this painting. This isn’t entirely an original painting though since…
Kirby Pet Portrait Commission
I put off painting this painting longer than I probably should have. I was very intimidated to work from a dark, out of focus and grainy cell phone photo. My mother-in-law took the photo of Kirby the day before he died and specifically requested that I use that photo and keep it dark and…
Completed Dog Portrait Commission “Trigger”
I mentioned a while back that I had three portraits in progress that I needed to finish. I finished one! This is a commission I did for my mother-in-law. I had given her a portrait of her dog Dopey last Christmas and she soon after requested portraits of her other dogs. When she saw…
“Dopey” Dog Portrait
I finished this surprise painting for my mother-in-law Vicki this week. She’s always been very supportive of my painting and is my only paying customer to date. With that in mind, I wanted to give her something really special for Christmas. Her favorite dog Dopey is getting older and blinder by the minute so…
Painting My First Pet Portrait
This week I took a very much-needed break from landscapes to paint my first pet portrait. I’ve been itching to paint my dog, Shanzi for a while now. Running into pet portraits on Pinterest and the WP Reader has only fueled my desire to paint her. For my first try, I couldn’t be happier with how it…