Pet Portraits

I have been painting and selling custom pet (so far just dogs!) portraits on etsy.com I have really enjoyed working on paintings! I unfortunately lost a few images of the paintings I have done, but fortunately the customers I did them for were kind enough to send me photographs and for some of them I still had the Digital color study that I showed to the customer before starting the painting.

Digital Study- Reuben

Digital Study- Chloe

Digital Study- Poodles

Boston Terrier

Ozzie the Bee

Daisy

Marley

Spike

Frank

Gili

illustration friday: Fast

A giant Rooster would be fast, especially with the right jockey.

I thought I would try something different than usual so I decided to do a colorful painting in watercolors.

Iowa State Fair

Our assignment was to do an Advertisement for a product, or event. So I chose one of my favorite events, the Iowa State fair.

Picture Books in Winter

This was an assignment to copy a work from a Golden Age Illustrator. I chose Jesse Wilcox Smith. The painting I chose was Picture Books in Winter. The first image is her painting.


First I did a line drawing of Picture Books in Winter, completely freehand no tracing.


I then had to freehand a value drawing in Charcoal.



And the final part of the project was to do a painting. This painting was done in acrylic paints watered down to be more like watercolors.

A few more media experiment projects

Here are a few more of the Paintings I did in my Media Experimentation class


This picture is done by doing a line drawing which is reversed and printed and then transfered using a Chartpak Blender marker. This was then painted with Acrylics and his face was painted with Oil. This is a little boy I used to babysit trying to use his big eyes to persuade me to take him to play outside.


My friend Lizzie sat and posed while I took nearly 100 pictures of her for this project. This was the best choice. This is an Acrylic painting, it was painted in layers mixing the acrylic with gloss medium, then it was sanded with a wet sandpaper. It was a very fun project, and I am planning on trying it again.

While I was out at the Livestock center for one of my horse classes, I found a bucket of old discarded horse shoes, so I asked if I could borrow them. The first image is the original photograph. I then painted it using Acrylic paints.

This is Mr. Oswald posing in the sunlight. This painting was done by first doing a drawing using Charcoal and then painting over it with Gouache.

This was painting using a technique called Oil lift out. Thin washes of Oil paint are put down, and then using pure paint thinner the lighter values are lifted out.

Oil Photo Rendering

This is my first Media Experimentation project, and the first time I actually understood how to use oil paint!

I used a photograph as a reference and tried to paint it to look as exact to the photo as I could.

I spent about 45 hours on this painting.

A few projects I have done lately

This is a Boston Terrier that I did in a pop-art style. I have been working on the painting for awhile, but I finally put the finishing touches on it to make it look complete!


This summer I took a watercolor class, one of the places we went was a lot filled with Old Cars, it was definately my favorite project in the class! I never knew I would actually enjoy painting a car and I think I will have to practice drawing and painting some other old cars!



I've been working on drawing Horses because they have been difficult for me to draw in the past.




This is a Yellow-Headed Black Bird, I took his picture while I was in Grand Teton National Park. He sat there and let me get pretty close with my camera.