Here's a start! I will try to post photos as it dries in between stages. This photo looks kind of dark compared to the painting. Feel free to post comments/critique me as I go along! Critique is French for "criticize"... I can take it! The painting is 18 x 36, acrylic on hardwood panel. I won't show the sketch, so you can be surprised.
As acrylic dries very quickly, on large paintings I like to use a retarding medium to slow the drying
I lightened up the sky a bit and corrected the horizon line, and worked on the clouds. Didn't get much done, now it's lunch time already!
More detail added to the tree line.......
The spirit underpainting of the Chief!
No feet yet!
The crows are somewhat cartoony right now, but I am more interested in capturing their gestures, than detail right now.
The chief is coming along. He looks stout because I was too lazy to lift the panel with each consecutiv
e shot.
Now I'm repainting the hand. It seems like these crows have been watching the chief materialize.
I wanted to revamp his buckskins and make them plainer. I tried to rework his face, how frustrating!
This is a terrible photo, but now he looks just like I want him to...he looks so very sad. He was smitten with someone and she desp
ised him.
Just have to finish the crows and foreground!
I do have to redo his right hand, it looks deformed.
Here is the finished painting!
Here's sweet Sugar, enjoying the aurora borealis outside on a cold winter night. Not really, he doesn't get outside very often and he's not much of a stargazer! He sure makes a good model, though!
Brand new pet portrait idea! This is "Hershey", one of my client's beloved chocolate lab, filled up with tons of labs. This is a" Cut-out" silhouette watercolor and acrylic painted on wood! The unique frameless painting is protected without glass. When hung on the wall, the finished art stands out 3/4" from the wall, casts a shadow and appears to float in space.
e shot.
ised him. 
