I have continued to experiment with using larger hog hair brushes for painting and I’m still loving the look of it. I did a few coats of paint on the rabbit, but left the background with the original block in since I liked it so much. I honestly thought I would have finished…
Category: Portrait
The Colonel Rooster Painting
Meet The Colonel. He was a rescue rooster that I had for couple years and one of the nicest and bravest roosters I had over the course of handful of years I kept chickens. He was so nice, I could pick him up and pet him and he never attacked me, the kids, or…
Grey Kitty Painting
This painting is a 7.5×7.5 inch oil on canvas. It is a bit experimental and a total departure from my normal style. I really love it though. This was the look I was after with my previous black canvas paintings that I failed to achieve because I just couldn’t not paint the entire surface….
Whiskey Puppy Portrait
I don’t know why I struggled with this painting so much. It started out with so much promise and I loved it so much, but then I painted a teal background and that was. the end of it. It went in a direction I didn’t like and the more I tried to fix it,…
Cat Portrait: Kiki
I love it when paintings practically paint themselves. Unfortunately, this was not one of those paintings. It seems like only one in 5 work out that well and, after a really easy painting I end up really struggling on the next one. Yet I still expected this painting to be easier. I think coming off…
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…
2017 Year in Review
2017 was a very productive year for me. By far the most productive year I’ve ever had, and that includes my school years. This year, I completed 43 paintings and have grown considerably as an artist. To compare, I finished 26 paintings total in the last two years and probably less than 10 in…
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…
Black Betty Portrait Finished
This painting has been mentioned on my blog a handful of times over the last year. The last time I posted about it, it had been so long since we had worked on it that I incorrectly thought it had been a year already. It was a project I started with my sister-in-law in…
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…
Three Portraits in Progress
I’ve been really hammering out the still lifes lately. It doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on other paintings too. There have been a couple of times that I just couldn’t bear to work on a still life another second. A quick struggle with a portrait sets me straight. This one I’ve seriously been…
Oil Painting Portrait – Part 7
Finished! I’m relieved that to have finally finished this painting. It nearly didn’t get finished this year. I got it about 98% done and got stuck. I just didn’t know what needed to be done. It took nearly a week before I could see that last little bit that would put it over the finish…