My last post of Buster, many of you thought him done and wondered what else needed to be done. So…I thought it might be helpful if I posted the photos of Buster 7 and Buster 8 side by side so you could compare and more easily see the progress…. Buster 7 is here on the…
Painting on Buster…..almost done…almost there….just a little more….. I will admit, painting has been a struggle the past few days. It has done nothing but rain here. I can handle a few dreary and grey days, but now it is just starting to be a bit depressing. Also I struggle with lighting here in the…
A while back I mentioned doing a video on one of my fur techniques….and now I have decided to take it one step further. I’m planning my very first e-course. A step by step of how to paint….a…..mmmmmm…..what should it be? I have some ideas, but I would like to hear from you all on…
I thought you might enjoy seeing a project I did a few years back. When I owned a little boutique in downtown Lafayette, the Art Museum put together a fund raiser for themselves and Casa for kids. They approached artist who would volunteer their time and talents in painting these large fiberglass frogs. Once done…
Oh….me or my it felt so good to sit back down in front of my easel and put my brush into paint…..back to Buster… I didn’t make a lot of progress today. I always find that it takes me awhile to get back into a painting once I have put it aside for awhile. Still,…
Only had a few hours this week so not much progress on the painting. The nose is starting to take shape and I’m playing with the shadows and getting a feel for the direction of the beard. We will be preparing our fifth wheel and starting our journey to Indiana next Thursday. It will take…
Moving right along on this portrait of Buster. Pretty happy with his eyes and the reflection….although I’m sure I will come back and do some final tweaking once the portrait is further along. Still working on the left ear and eye brow area, but needed to leave it ‘rest’ a bit so I jumped down…
Spent most of my time working on the area around the right eye as well as building up the darker layers inside the eyes themselves. Notice that you can still see some of the “lighter” foundation layer that was applied to the eye last time. I’m almost ready to begin laying the foundation for the…
Here I am again….still making progress. I’ve moved into the forehead area and got rid of that ‘divot’ that I noticed in the last photo. That is one thing I have found very helpful….taking photos of my work as it progresses. It is amazing what you discover in a photograph that you somehow missed…
As you can see, I have a pretty good start on Buster. I have 3 coats of gesso (that is a sealer and ground for the painting surface) applied and about 3 more coats of color in the background. All that gives me a nice smooth and opaque surface for the painting. After the background…