Fluffy, Work in progress. 8″ x 10″ acrylic on panel. ©Xan Blackburn 2011 Fluffy’s portrait is coming along nicely. As usual, I was a little afraid of messing it up. Again. But just pushed on forward. The background is looking intriguingly like leather, somehow. I didn’t mean it to, exactly, but I like it. Fluffy … Read More “Busy Day!”
Tangaloor Malden, CGC “Hunter”11″ x 14″ acrylic and graphite on Gessobord©Xan Blackburn, 2011 A lot of careful work went into refining the silky hairs swirling around the ear and down the neck, bringing them in and out of shadows, giving them dimension, giving them some color, making them finer. Much more shadow was needed along … Read More “Silken Windhound Portrait, Hunter, is … Done! (Probably)”
Work in Progress, “Hunter”silken windhoundGraphite, acrylic, on gessobord, 11″x 14″©Xan Blackburn, 2011 HUNTER! Yes, his name is Hunter. Christina of New York’s Hunter. The cats are yelling at me for their dinner, so I’ll be brief. Here’s where we are today, with a fair amount to go. As you can see, I spent a lot … Read More “Hunter gets a name! Silken Windhound #3 portrait update”
Man, I really hope someone guesses who this is, soon! My titles are going to start looking like a math lesson! Work in Progressmixed media (acrylic, graphite) on panel, 11″ x 14″©Xan Blackburn, 2011 Today started with some corrections, and some timidity. I got a used Galaxy Tab recently (I might have to give that … Read More “Silken portrait #3, Stage 2”
And now for something completely different! Well, it’s still a silken windhound, but I’m working on this one really differently. I figured I’d better write this down before I forgot what I did, and what my original thought is, so here goes. I wanted to combine a graphite drawing with acrylic. My original concept is … Read More “Silken Windhound #3”
First: Happy Canada Day, to my Canadian readers! Being so close to the Canadian border for the last several years has been very educational. I love listening to the CBC while I work, and today’s radio has been full of their nation’s anniversary, and the first royal visit of Will and Kate. Right now is … Read More “Mystery Silken gets a name, and …”
Work in progresssilken windhound©Xan Blackburn, 2011 I’m bummed! I thought I’d taken a scan of the painting on Friday, but I guess not. Well, you’ll just have to look at it as it is now! The underpainting was pretty much set in Payne’s gray by Friday, so today I started in on the color in … Read More “Mystery Silken in progress”
I am trying to move on to the next painting (follow along, now!), but Bados, it turns out, is a star. A star needs to shine alone for full effect. That is, the hills and sky had to go (see that last stage here). Now, you might think that’s easy. Just paint green over them … Read More “Bados was NOT done. He’s STILL not done!”
I think I’ve reached the sleep-on-it phase of Bados’ portrait. (Looking again, tilting my head, going back and adding some more greens to the shadow area at his feet …)Yeah. I’m going to eat my leftover pizza (from Pizza Pi in Seattle – oh, people! YUM!), by which time it should be dry enough to … Read More “Bados: done?”
Bados; a work in progress©Xan Blackburn, 2011 My silken windhound friends correctly identified Bados in the hazy earliest stages I showed you in my last post. I only had a little time to paint yesterday (had to drive to Seattle airport to pick up my hubby after a week-long business trip — Yeay!), but I’m … Read More “Bados coming clearer”
