Sunday, July 12, 2009

Where I'm at so far... (more progress pics)

Here you can see I'm blocking in the rest of his face.


He needs a "nozz!" Poor guy has no sniffer, lets give him one...


That's better!

This is all still the underpainting, which is like a map, telling me fur direction and color and gives me more of an idea of what parts I want to play up or tone down. So all that's left is to block in his chest, and then I can go back over with more layers of paint to bring out some details. That's the really fun part!

Here's a photo I didn't crop to give you an idea of the size of the painting (18 x 18"). That's a really big coffee cup too, lol.


I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

14 comments:

Unknown said...

Curious Cloud I think! Great start Kathleen:)

T. Edlin said...

Best ears EVER!

Julia Guthrie said...

Aww fantastic!!

artbykarieann said...

that's fantastic already Kat, thanks for the progress, I can't paint so it's very interesting to see how liquids are tackled - and I don't mean the coffee

Chris Wolfgang said...

That's HUGE! So dramatic!

Kritter Keeper at Farm Tails said...

you always amaze me! his eyes look really good...need to email you about something...will do soon.

Grahame Butler said...

Looking fantastic as always Kathleen, very interesting to see how you progress through a painting...

Kathleen Coy said...

Thank you for your comments, everyone! :-)

Caroline said...

That's a big painting - I had no idea!! I wonder how many hours you'll put in in total on this one?
Caroline

Kelly Schulz said...

I love seeing the process. It looks wonderful! I love animal portraits.

artbykarieann said...

Hi Kat, I've awarded you the Premio Meme award, you can collect it from my blog!

Bijou said...

Cloud is really looking good!

Wags & wiggles,
Bijou

Pee ess, my captcha was "toadflu"! BOL

gtyyup said...

Looking great! Cloud is not only photogenic, he's paintagenic as well!

First Draught Farm said...

Simply, WOW!