Emmet – work in progressAcrylic on canvas, 5″ x 5″©Xan Blackburn 2012 Fall Portrait Marathon, Emmet!Emmet is really coming along nicely. He got another wash of diluted red, which doesn’t look so weird now, but seemed very sun-burn-ish when I first looked at it. Lots of layering of shading and color has gone on. See … Read More “FPM #8: Emmet stage 3”
Fall Portrait Marathon, Emmet! Emmet – work in progressAcrylic on canvas, 5″ x 5″©Xan Blackburn 2012 Little Emmet still seems to be scowling, but that will be resolved right at the end. In looking at the painting this morning, it was clear to me that the underpainting was really not done. The darks were nowhere near … Read More “FPM #8: Emmet gets some color”
Emmet sharing the love Fall Portrait Marathon, Emmet! My dear friend Merann is a woman who looo-oooves her pets! She has 3 greyhounds as well as a bunch (how many is it now?) of cats. Her Cornish Rex, Emmet, is a special guy. He had his claws removed in a previous home, and suffered great … Read More “FPM #8: Emmet the nekkid Cornish Rex”
Matt5″ x 5″, Acrylic on canvas©Xan Blackburn 2012 Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #7: Matt Matt’s painting finished up in one sustained burst, and I didn’t get any more progress pics for you. Sorry about that! We left off here. One of the first things I did when I picked my brushes back up was … Read More “FPM: Matt is Done!”
Matt – reference photo Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #7: Matt This is Matt. Those bedroom eyes with their serious gaze are inspiring feelings of warmth, and a distinct desire to give him cookies! His owner, Christine, got in on an earlier marathon, giving me the chance to paint her boy Hamilton in a field of … Read More “FPM: I’m baa-aack! Meet Matt”
Kasey – work in progressacrylic on canvas, 5″ x 5″© Xan Blackburn, 2011 Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #6: Kasey The Holiday Hiatus, if I may so name it retroactively, has passed, and work has resumed. Kasey, whom we last saw smiling brightly as you see him on the right, has moved through the last few stages … Read More “FPM: Kasey is DONE!”
Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #6: Kasey Kasey – work in progressacrylic on canvas, 5″ x 5″© Xan Blackburn, 2011 Tightened up some of the darks, corrected a little around the nose-ball, and did some more of the subtle shading on his neck and the shadowed side of his face. Then I dove in with some … Read More “FPM Painting #6: Kasey, color-y!”
Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #6: Kasey Okay, “Fall Portrait Marathon” has been turning into “Winter Portrait Marathon”, but why confuse things by changing the name officially, hm? My latest big adventure has taken up a lot of my time recently, but hopefully things are more in a groove now. I got back to my painting … Read More “FPM Painting #6: Kasey”
Faye Oops portrait catching some side-light© Xan Blackburn 2011 Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #5: Faye Oops Faye Oops left her family broken-hearted last week. While her passing was gentle, with her loved ones present, it is never easy to lose the ones we love. Even though so much of my work is to give a … Read More “FPM: Faye Oops Portrait Completed!”
Fall Portrait Marathon, Painting #5: Faye Oops Okay, not exactly “legal” to take a break during a marathon, but, there was Thanksgiving, and I had a sick dog (now much better, and bugging me to play with him), and then there was a lot of communications going on about some rescue dogs coming from Seoul, … Read More “FPM Painting #5: Faye Oops!”
