I have been sick for a few days, that’s why there wasn’t any progress updates for a while. I will be working harder this and next week because of that and upload new steps of the portraits I’m currently working on.

Today in the morning I went to the framer and photographed many frames I will be offering on my future website. I also went there with the painting of Hunter to see which frames would suit that portrait and found a really nice one. I will be sending the photo to the client later this evening.

Later on today, I started to sketch on the oil painting on linen canvas of Robin and Tuffe. The painting is in size 70 x 55cm. I know the client was eager to see the first step, so here it is. Hope you like it!

Robin and Tuffe - step1

Dog and boy oil portrait - step 1

Here is step two of Dodger. I worked some more with light, colors and details. I will probably post step two of Adrian in Monday.

Dog portrait in watercolor - step 2

So the portrait of Doberman Hunter is finally finished and I’m posting the Final scan and a close-up of him today. The reference photo was on the edge of being in to poor quality for a painting, but the client wanted the portrait so much so I decided to go for it. The background wasn’t  originally in the photo, that was added when I created the photo montage before I started to paint. When it comes to colors and light I achieved what I wanted and I’m happy with the result so I’m hoping the client will be happy too. The portrait is in size 38 x 47cm.

Now I will take my car to the art supply store and buy some canvas to stretch. I will start with a big painting of a boy and a dog. I’m really looking forward to this one, because the reference photos are great. I will of course also continue with the watercolor paintings of Dodger and Adrian later today. I’m hoping to post next stages of at least one tomorrow.

Pet Portraits in oil of Doberman Hunter

Doberman Pet Portraits

Yesterday and today I have been painting the two watercolors of Adrian and Dodger and I´m posting the first steps of the paintings. Watercolor is a very hard medium to paint with from the beginning to the end, especially if you don´t use white colors. It`s nice to paint watercolor portraits every now and then because it`s very relaxing. Hope you like it so far…

First step of Dog portrait in Watercolors

Step one of Horse watercolor painting

Today I will continue working on Hunters portrait in oils and here I`m posting step six. I have worked little on Hunter and left out the background for a while. There is still much more work to do with lightening and detail but this is at least one step on the way. Now I will move on to the background and after that I will let the painting dry until next week. So next week I will complete the portrait entirely. Stay toned for the updates on the portrait then.

Tomorrow I will start to paint two portraits in watercolors, one of Dodger (a sweet dog) and one of Adrian (a horse) with background.

Step six of doberman portrait

As I mentioned in a earlier post the German Shepherd Candie is back on my easel. I still have lots of work left to do, but now the portrait is finally taking right shape and looking more and more realistic. The reference photo I use is too blurry, but thats really not an issue since I´m looking at many photos for the details I need. The painting also has a different, warmer and more interesting light then the reference photo.

Step six of German Shepherd Candie

I have completed the html template with CSS and div tags for the dog website I mentioned in another post. Now it will be interesting to see what the client will do with it. The site will be created in php with a database.

Now I have moved on with the portrait of Doberman Hunter. I filled almost the entire canvas with paint in step four and painted one more layer of paint to the background and the rest of the harness in step five. The next step is to continue working on hunter. I have to get things going here in the studio, since I have many more portraits to complete this month.

Doberman panting in progress, step five

Doberman portrait in progress, step four