tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91094033333672901042011-08-01T14:36:09.874-07:00I am an artist working in various media. I specialize in realistic oil painting pet portraits. My personal work consists of large and small scale sky scape oil paintings, still life, people portraits, nudes, collage, and drawings. I also have a series of abstract oils and drawings.Coconoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109403333367290104.post-82583873605949916002009-08-06T08:47:00.000-07:002009-08-06T13:12:19.463-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE5dF_ryI/AAAAAAAAACQ/v79EYTx3q_0/s1600-h/Amber+%231.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 396px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE5dF_ryI/AAAAAAAAACQ/v79EYTx3q_0/s400/Amber+%231.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366888766050905890" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">These are some of the stages of Amber's oil portrait...a tad out of order because I've been trying to figure this blogging thing out now for 4 hours and can't get them in order! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The first step was drawing with paint and brush, and I experimented with drippy washes on background...not very successful, must learn how to drip paint....</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: georgia;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE5pbzjAI/AAAAAAAAACY/8UNTweyPQ6M/s1600-h/Amber+%232.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE5pbzjAI/AAAAAAAAACY/8UNTweyPQ6M/s400/Amber+%232.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366888769363610626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I then refined the drawing with darker paint, and brought in the shadows. Note how much the drawing of the ears will change, they were very challenging and it is critical to get them right, so that they are 'Amber's ears', same thing goes for every part of her, really. I then painted the eyes and started the nose.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE56arT_I/AAAAAAAAACg/BND3FcrAi04/s1600-h/Amber+%233.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsE56arT_I/AAAAAAAAACg/BND3FcrAi04/s400/Amber+%233.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366888773922279410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">I laid in color for the background and continued on the ears, note how much smaller at the base the left one is...bad! I also noticed the right eye was too small and too far to the right... REALLY bad!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/Snr9hbtK07I/AAAAAAAAABo/XXBgW_f9K3w/s1600-h/Amber+%235.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/Snr9hbtK07I/AAAAAAAAABo/XXBgW_f9K3w/s400/Amber+%235.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366880656780088242" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">With the new 'right' eye and </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">the </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">refined ears, I worked on the shadows on left side of face, popped in the blue collar and started the base color on her body.</span><br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsG9DfArMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/2gTuRzlUrIc/s1600-h/Amber+%237+-+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsG9DfArMI/AAAAAAAAAC4/2gTuRzlUrIc/s400/Amber+%237+-+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366891026919238850" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This image should follow the next one<br />but, I couldn't move it and kept deleting other stages/images so, now I give up with dealing with the difficulty of creating this blog! </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsGXngeiUI/AAAAAAAAACw/kriUah5ZWg8/s1600-h/Amber+%236.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SnsGXngeiUI/AAAAAAAAACw/kriUah5ZWg8/s400/Amber+%236.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366890383754037570" border="0" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Keen observation on your part will show you the progress from this stage to the previous one, as you can see, I worked the details of the face fur and muzzle, and started the body.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/Snr9iMVfOlI/AAAAAAAAACA/CT-cbkDj1Tk/s1600-h/Amber+final+pntng+-+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/Snr9iMVfOlI/AAAAAAAAACA/CT-cbkDj1Tk/s400/Amber+final+pntng+-+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366880669834099282" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And here is the final</span> oil painting on canvas. I would guess, as I didn't record my time this time, that it took around 40 hours over a period of 2 months.<br /></div><br />I added all the top layer details; whiskers, another thin glaze on the right eye highlight, the dark line around her, which I've never done but do like how it 'pops her out' from the background.<br /><br />I then put a layer of 'Rose Madder' red on the background to soften the line's edge while it was still wet.<br /><br />Voila! She's quite complete although, I still see a few details I may tweek.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br />Thank you for visiting.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9109403333367290104-8258387360594991600?l=cocolarrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Coconoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9109403333367290104.post-35155432079895321322009-03-05T11:42:00.000-08:002009-03-05T12:01:45.633-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SbAsg9eEMRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SrOaxGhMsmI/s1600-h/Truman.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_16H_cfd2y7Y/SbAsg9eEMRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SrOaxGhMsmI/s400/Truman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309792905437917458" border="0"></a><br />This is Truman painted in oil, 12"x 24".<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9109403333367290104-3515543207989532132?l=cocolarrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Coconoreply@blogger.com0