Completion of the portrait:

To pick up from where we left off yesterday...



Painting a portrait from start to finish:

Well I'm at a stopping place right now on the portrait I've been doing.  I've been painting a few hours now. Here's some images from the beginning to where I left it at.  People are always asking me how do I do it, when they see my artwork.  Here it is..

Please excuse the fact they're at really weird angles.  Those kids aren't as abnormal looking as it may appear in some of the images.  I had the canvas propped on my lap and just leaned back to take a couple of the pictures.

Oh, and this is the picture design I'm doing for the police officer next as soon as the canvas board arrives. You can tell by the way he wanted his portrait to look he really loves being a cop. I hope he likes it when it's done.

Getting ready to do some painting:

I've just finished doing the drawing phase of a portrait for someone. I don't want to post a picture of it because that person may see it in the blog and it's not really something I wanna show off yet.  Not til I know it's going to turn out right or not.  Have you ever tried drawing a portrait of someone who looks like Robyn Wright Penn only the final product keeps looking like Cameron Diaz?   (I wanna pull my hair out!)
Anyway, I've got to wait to draw that first officer's portrait I'm doing first because I had to order a canvas board the right size.  I thought I had some canvas boards that size but it turned out they were an inch under what I told the officer I'd do.  And God forbid don't let me accidentally lie to another cop!  Lol. So I went ahead and knocked out the drawing on another portrait I'd planned to do while I wait for it to arrive.  So today, I'm going to work on that painting for my neighbor's friend I posted progress photos of yesterday.  Oh, and I did get a picture of the German Shepherd I did for the Police Department with the frame.  I forgot to take any pictures of it with the frame but would you believe the Police Department put a picture of my painting in their facebook page. I couldn't believe it when my neighbor told me they put it in there. So here's the photo of it the police department took with it in it's frame.



Paintings, Paintings, & and Cops!:

Well, I've been working the last hour or two on the first of a few paints I'm doing.  I've this one for a neighbor that I have to do first, then I have a Poodle for a friend's mother n law. I may be able to hold off on that one because poodles are easy to do and I don't have to have it til I think May. But I've got one I'm doing for a cop that saw the German Shepherd I did for the Police Department (which posted it on their Official facebook page which is so sweet of them)  and is getting me to do a painting for him. Then I have another one I'm doing and that's all before the next one I hope to do for the Fire Department.

Ohhh, That reminds me..  LOL  Wanna see that cop I gave the German Shepherd portrait to???  The one that asked me if it was stolen... LOL  You know I forgot to mention I think, (I've been so busy) That cop called me on the phone.  lol  It was a few days ago. I was awake but hadn't gotten up yet.  Me and the dogs were watching a movie and the cell rings and it says private on the call.  The first thing I thought...."It's a cop. It's gotta be"..  Yep! It was a cop!.  lol  It was THE cop.  The one I was geeking out at when I went downtown to the police station.  The one I freakin committed a felony to by lying when he asked how long the painting took to do and like a deer in headlights I blurt out "two weeks".  Well, He called and asked if he could give my number to another cop (the one I'm doing a painting for) and he also wants to get me to do a portrait for him also, so I'm just tweaking all over the place with this.  Oh, and  I made sure to tell him it took about 4 days or so to do the German Shepherd and I don't know why I just said two weeks and it didn't really dawn on me that I just committed a felony.  He thought it was funny, so I guess I'm not going to jail afterall.  But check it out.  He was in our local paper a couple months ago. So now you got a visual.  See what appears when back doors open up late at night! lol

TWH Updates and some other stuff too:

I've been working more on the walker.  He's still got a ways to go yet. I may change his neck and head position though.  He's facing forward. He's not primed yet so with his original ASB breyer paint still showing through on some places it messes with the sculpt.  I'll work on him maybe tonight.

I've started this little guy a while ago.  he's the Clydesdale foal.  I changed the neck and the tail and did a lot of work to the feathering on the legs and I think now I may do him as a Belgian foal.

And lastly I'm working on this little thing.  I'm doing it into a mare, I just don't know what breed right now.  It's the SM belgian mold.  I've given it a complete overhaul.

I've got to work on her legs a lot still. I'm wondering if I may need to lengthen them a bit.

Then I'm almost done with the Nightmare horse..

Oh, and I designed another new picture to do a painting of.  This is going to look amazing ...I hope! 

New Tennessee Walker:

Literally phase one here.  I've just started the new walker.  I've cut away the hind legs and filled in with apoxie.  Moved the front leg and filled in. Removed the whole neck and filled it in partially. Shaved the lower back down as well as the hind legs. Sculpted the undercarriage (he's a stallion) and the shoulder.  He's got a ways to go yet before he even starts to look like a walker. He's at a point now where I can't do anything else til what I've done so far hardens. Then he'll get the rest of his neck, a tail, and a face. I still may tweak his head position a bit.  He's going to be layed back but regal, like True Grit was.



New Stuff Coming:

I'm working on some new paintings and another TWH CM also.  I'll include pictures of his growth all through his coming to life. lol  The Andalusian Painting is available in ebay.  His ad is linked in MH$Ps also.

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Took a better picture of the Andy Portrait: