This is the next stage of Hunter’s portrait. The entire family got the flu so I’m not working at the moment, but thought it would be nice to post the next stage of Hunter until I get well enough to work again. Hope that will be soon, since it’s so boring to be sick.

Hunter's Portrait in progress

This is the second step of Alice, the beautiful Ridgeback. I don’t know why, but I always post my progress images to Facebook first and to my blog the next day. Probably because I have many followers over there and the client for this particular painting is on Facebook too. Anyway, I have also completed the next stage of Hunter which I will blog about tomorrow… so come back and visit tomorrow too.

Stage two of Alice in oil

So Yesterday I completed the Portrait of horse “Magic” in pastel. Today I took the time to finally scan and to blog it. I scanned the portrait in two parts and had to make some color adjustments to it too, but the colors are sill not exactly the same as the original. Well, it’s not such a big difference anyway. So for the rest of this week I will only paint with oils as I have to paint the next stage of Alice and Hunter. I have to get things going here in the studio, it’s so frustrating when I too often have other things to do, but to paint.

Horse portraits in pastel

Yesterday I completed first stage of Alice. First I created a very simple sketch with a HB pencil and later added the outlines and some shadings with three different oil colors: Ivory black, Burnt Umber and Winsor Yellow. A nice sketch of such a beautiful young dog who sadly passed way to soon…

Fist stage of dog in oil, on belgian linen canvas

It can take a while between my blog posts, but I’m trying to get things done here in the studio. I’m working on several paintings and other projects at the same time, so sometimes I simply forget about my blog. Today I started with the portrait of Alice and I will blog that first stage tomorrow. It’s a big portrait and the eyes will be so nice to paint, I can’t wait to continue with it! This week I also painted a little bit on the horse Magic in detailed pastel, you can see how far I got below. As you can see, I still have allot of work left to do, but I will hopefully complete this portrait next week. Hunter is also waiting for me on my wall…

Third stage of Magic

Third stage of horse portrait

This week went by so fast! Well, allot of things has been going on “behind the scenes”, but nothing yet to write about in my blog. Anyway, I started with the pastel portrait of Magic and painted yet another stage of Hunter. So much work left there! So you can see four progress images below.

Painting a dog portrait

Stage three of Labrador Hunter

Stage one of horse portrait

Stage two of horse Magic