I just completed the background on Barkley’s portrait. There were just a few glazes needed to make it rich and warm, and give it the textured appearance it needed.

I’m getting there… in fact Sheeba’s underpainting is already dry, so I’ll get to work on finishing up her background tomorrow, then back with Barkley. I’m all over the place on my schedule now! 😛

She feels much better now!

And with all of my underpaintings, I feel a strong obligation for anyone new that might see this to please not be frightened, this is an oil painting, an underpainting at that, and, well, go look at my gallery of completed paintings. I’m not finished until she looks like she’s sitting right in front of you. 😉

I’ll be working on Sheeba’s first coat of fur on cam today. When that’s finished, I’ll switch over to Barkley! Poor Sheeba looks kinda freaky all blank on her beauty-full blankie, and I can’t bear to see her looking at me with those big brown eyes pleading “paint me pleeeeease!” So, I shall paint her!

Studio cam link is in the left sidebar!

Here’s a partial underpainting on Sheeba. I’ve done something a little different with her eyes, a new “technique” you might call it, this is the underpainting mind you so her personality will come out when I finish that second layer.

I’m hoping to not get another wicked headache tonight, if I am able to avoid it I plan on finishing Barkley. Check back for the Studio Cam status (left sidebar) if you’d like to watch later tonight!

Here he is, Playdog of the year, Barkley. This is just his underpainting. Both the background and Barkley will be getting another coat tomorrow.

I’m going to turn my cam off for now, I’m debating whether or not to start another underpainting tonight. I will update if I do!

Here we go! I went ahead and sketched out 8 of the 11 paintings I’ll be working on over the next few weeks. I am still waiting on a few things for the other three, so I’ll get those up as soon as I get what I’m waiting for.

Since there are so many, and one of them is a PG-13 Pose (yes, it is an animal!), I’m going to “hide” them.

Just read on to see the eye candies!

Here’s the final scan & eye close-ups on Luke & Ella’s portrait.

I’m going to be pretty busy today, so I’m not sure when I’ll be postin’ those sketches for you of my next portraits. Stop back again later tonight!

It’s finally done! I am going to go to bed at a decent hour tonight, so I’ll get the sketch(es) up tomorrow of my next piece(s)!!! Oh yea, I’ll scan this one too – both of their eyes turned out amazing, and you can’t see it here in this pic. Foo! You’ll see tomorrow.
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I’ve turned on my new fancy-schmancy webcam, and I’ll be finishing up Luke & Ella today if ya wanna watch!

I’ll sketch out my next piece after this one is finished, so you’ll see that one up here tonight, too.