KATJAS WORK IN PROGRESS BLOG

Today I started with the portrait of the cat George in Pastel. He is very cute, behind the Christmas tree :). I’m still in the beginning of the process, but I’m having allot of fun painting with pastel. The Portrait is painted on UART sanded paper, 800 grade. I decided to use the finest grade because there won’t be any paint in the background and I want to get the line between George and the paper as soft as possible.

cat portrait in pastel - step1

cat portrait in pastel - step2

This is my second pastel portrait I just completed today. I created this portrait on 600 grade UART sanded paper. This sanded paper is great since it’s easier to paint dark’s and light’s on it and the colors stays on. Some people say that so much color is wasted since it’s a sanded paper, but that’s not not true… you don’t really need to waste that many layers of color falling of the paper before achieving the results you want. This is by far better then the velour paper, but I will still try other papers out.

Pastel cat portraits - Alexander

While I was on vacation a client of mine was kind enough to send me some photos she took of her uncle opening his gift, which was a portrait I created for his birthday. It’s a watercolor pet portrait of Farley I painted a while ago. This is what she wrote:

Hi Katja,

I hope you are enjoying the summer.  I just remembered I never sent you the photos of my Uncle George opening up the picture of Farley.  He absolutely loved it!   My aunt and uncle hung said everyone who comes into the room compliments them on the beautiful portrait.  Thanks again!

Take Care,
Sarah Guidotti

Client's photo of painting

This is a pencil portrait I created recently for my sister who wanted to have her self and her boyfriend drawn  and give away as a gift to Johan. Its a one year anniversary gift and the drawing is in size 29 x 42cm.

For two days now I have been working on the King Charles Spaniel painting, but it’s slowly progressing. I will continue to work on the painting tomorrow, but next step won’t be seen before next week.

pencil portraits

Pencil portrait

These are the first two steps of Alexandra, she is 20 years old now, but she was 3-4 years old on the photo. Her mother wanted to have a portrait done of her when she was a little child. Alexandra has a very sweet look on this photo so its understandable why this is one of mother’s favorite photos of her.

I will now let it dry over the weekend and continue working with all current artworks next week.

Portrait of girl in oil - step 1

Portrait of girl - step2

The painting of Glinka is finally completed and was dry enough today for me to scan. The problem with black is that it shines allot before it’s dry, that doesn’t look good when scanned. I rather wait and get it right then hurry it all. When the portrait is sent to the client I will never be able to scan it again and I really want to have my scanned portraits beautiful to show in the online gallery for as long as I want. So here she is:

Now back to work….

Dog painting in oils - Tervueren Glinka

Tervueren ( Tervuren) oil portrait painting

I decided to paint one more layer to the Tervueren female Glinka before adding any details. So this is how the portrait looks right now. It will change quite a bit before it’s completed though. I’m hoping the paint will dry soon enough for me to complete the portrait this week. I’m still thinking about which frame to choose for Glinka’s portrait, but I’m almost sure about which one would be suitable.

Dog Portrait painting of Glinka, step 5

Yesterday I painted next step of Glinka in Oils. Now it has to dry for a day or two and I will continue with the background. Then I can start with the details and complete the painting entirely. I will complete this portrait very soon.

Step four of Tervueren Glinka

So today I decided to just complete the painting without any more stages uploading in the blog. The reason for this is that I just couldn’t  stop painting it today and why stop when everything goes so well!? Anyways, I think this Dog Portrait turned out very well and this is now my favorite watercolor Portrait. I don’t have a clue why though, perhaps because of the colors. This photo taken of the Watercolor is a bit bigger then the original, so of course the original looks even better. I hope you like it

Tomorrow I will keep working on the illustration logo which I started to work on last week. It will be interesting how this will turn out too, but I’m pretty confident it will look awesome. Its just so much fun to paint on a drawing pad every once in a while.

Watercolor Dog Portraits

Today I have been working on a smaller oil on linen Portrait of the Tervueren female Glinka. I painted the first two steps. The portrait is in size 40 x 30cm and will pretty much look like the photo to the left, but with more neck. Now I will have to wait for the paint to dry a bit, in order to block in rest of the canvas. Anyway, Glinka is a pretty and smart girl and its of course my favorite breed since I own a Belgian Tervueren myself

Now I will spend rest of my working hours to pack the Framed Portrait of Dingo and Kassi. It really needs to be packed carefully, since the package will include glass.

Step one of Oil portrait

Step one of Oil Portrait

Step two of oil portrait