Coneflower WIP

This is where I'm at for today, my heads hurting!

Coneflowers WIP

here is the new painting for today...this is part watercolor underpainting with outlines blocking in shapes with pastel.
13x10

Corgi WIP

Here I am at about 3 hours after start. Had to move the eyes back and make them smaller, elongate the snout and tongue. Now i will let it sit for the night and go in and fix anything I need to tomorrow.

corgi WIP

1st layer of pastel, laying down oranges for the under tones in his fur.

Corgi WIP

Another underpainting done with watercolors on watercolor paper primed with colorfix primer. It is 10x8. I painting almost everything with cool colors on the colorwheel as this painting when done will be mostly warm.

Sunflowers finished

11x15" assort. pastel rembrandt, ludwig, unison

Here it is I think finished, I will put it on the wall for a few days to look at it. I added some more shadow to the right sunflower and added some darks into the spikie things can't remember the names....and pulled some color to the edges to give it alittle bit more of a finished look. I think my flowers are getting better, this came together quite quickly once I sat down to do it. About 2 hours with another 1/2 to touch up today.
As with most of the recent paintings in this blog, this will be available on my website for purchase if your interested.

Sunflower WIP

Here is about 3/4 the way through...got on a roll and forgot to take pictures. Little details need to be fixed edges lined up, but looking much better than the underpainting thank god!

Sunflowers WIP

This is the underpainting of a new painting for today. It is watercolor on colorfix primed watercolor paper. Its 11x15" and looks crazy!

Collie in the leaves

I fiddled around abit more with the collie...I'm done now! I think he stands out from the background a little bit more.

Pugnacous Pug

New name thought it fit better. This is my final unless something screams at me later. I still give alittle giggle every time I see his face! If he were my dog he would probably be the size of an elephant because he pouts pretty well...ok one more treat! Thanks for looking.

Pug Pout 3 WIP

Still working on my pug this is as far as I will get today. I inlarged his face from the eyes down and added lots more layers.

Pug Pout WIP

Here is the next stage with colors that are closer to the subjects real life coloring. This is the point where I go in and make sure that my orignal drawing is correct. The next stage will to try and make it pop out 3-D....atleast hoping I do!

Pug Pout WIP

its is 7.5x9.5"
Here is my next doggie....I really liking the pet portrait thing.... he has such a stubborn look to his face I had to try my hand at him next! This is the underpainting on watercolor paper with colorfix primer ontop for "tooth". Watercolors for the blocking. Looks really strange at this stage, what I'm doing is laying down colors that with pop through the top pastel layers giving it another layer of opticle mixing.

Collie in the leaves WIP

Here is my third pass at getting the collie to sit pretty in the leaves. I changed the placement of both eyes our right alot higher. The mouth/tongue needed to get larger and move to the left. His back went higher to get him to be more solid in body. I'm still struggling along with him.

collie in the leaves

10x14"
Here is a Collie sitting in the fall leaves, depicting leaves is alot harder than I thought it would be. I really struggled with this trying to get the background to recede. I may go back in a fiddle with a few things, but I will let it sit a few days.

I see Blue springer spanial

10x9" pastel
Here is the finish! Im pleased with the outcome of this doggie portrait. The things adjusted this last time were.....his right ear alittle more out of focus to push that side of his face forward, his right pupil moved facing forward abit more...no crazy eyes for him.

I see blue springer spanial WIP

Here is the 3rd stage a few things were correct....eyes/top of head and then details put in. Alittle more refining to go without loosing the stroke details.

I see blue springer spanial WIP

The first ruffed in stage of pastel

I see blue springer spanial WIP

this is the underpainting done on watercolor paper that is primed with colorfix primer. Then I painted it with watercolor paint but it must have been too thick as it ate up some of the tooth of the paper. So I put another layer of of clear primer over the top...but alittle too soon it wasn't quite dried yet. but still manageable.

I see Blue springer spanial

this is a dbl WIP on my easil. On the left springer spanial on the right sheltie. I show this because this is how I usually have paintings that Im working on at the moment. If I get tired of one, I will move over and work on the other.