Portraits

Pet Portraits - Your lifetime memory

Pet Portraits – Tile Art Mural Pet Portraits -  painting of “Daisy” is painted in the traditional style Daisy was painted from a small photo that was emailed to me. The request was for a pet portrait 4 tile mural. Here you see the original photo and completed painting . Your Pet Portraits from Photos [...]

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Paint a Portrait You Can Be Proud Of

Painting from Photos Today you are painting a portrait from photos. The project is to use the photos supplied and create an exciting portrait from photos. You’ll be using today’s electronic and digital tools. The Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor. Paint with digital paints using Corel Painter 11 You are doing a portrait painting in [...]

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Paintings of People - Pets - Places

PORTRAITS OF MY WORLD The  Slide Show Presentation …is a view of how I see the world around me, and how I paint it. I am presenting this as a slide show tonight, in Palm Desert, CA. at the Southwest Community Church. Many people have said they wished they could attend. So I decided to [...]

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New Painting Series

I took a break from the blog for about a week. I’m back, I’m rested and I’m painting. PORTRAIT SERIES After exploring the Still Life in depth, I have begun to miss my roots. This is a the first piece of the new series. The Plan To explore upclose and personal portraits of friends, family and [...]

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Should I turn down the commission?

I received an email with a commission to do a painting of the family standard poodle.  Included with the email were 4 photos of the dog. I opened the email, and there was a dog with no eyes, just headlights …red eye would have been better! Here are the reference photos: I emailed back and asked [...]

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Drawing from the Model - 60 Minutes

Weekly Life Figure Drawing Series Meet Model PB Sketching Process – 60 minutes Pose I start with a 15 minute block-in quick sketch. Art Materials Used The Paper: White charcoal paper. When doing traditional drawing I use Canson Ingres paper with a laid finish. ( I was trained in the old masters style and that was their paper [...]

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Drawing From the Model -Quick Sketches

Weekly Life Figure Drawing Series Meet Model S Quick Sketching – Short Poses I have chosen Pose #6 for todays drawings. They are all short poses, from 1 to 10 minutes. Quick sketching is the warm up process. Usually done on newsprint paper, the model does a series of one minute poses for a 20 [...]

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Sketchnotes

THIS IS BLOG WEEK   Did you ever think of taking notes and making those notes into a piece of art? I love to draw, so this really caught my attention. I found his blog and these incredible notes by John Uhri. This is a sample of one of the sketchnotes that he took at the [...]

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Portrait Painting Demo

     Using Photos for Reference TAKE A SEAT AND ENJOY  Today I am working in my ultimate digital art studio.  This is an oil painting demo using the Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor and Corel® Painter 11. I will be demonstrating a portrait using photos supplied by the client.   I start each portrait in a [...]

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