Painterly Pet Portraits

Finished 

 Half Finished

 Beginning

Each stage shows you something different about the process of fine oil painting.  In the beginning, I simply lay out the colors.  It is a very unflattering beginning, but you need a strong base to start from. 

In the second stage I have filled in a few more details, tackling the most glaring issues.  Mainly the neck, lips, cheeks and eyes.  These features are most important to a portrait, once you have them in place, the rest is gravy! 

To reach the finished portrait above, I obviously worked on the background, but the white shoulder straps were equally as important.  Leaving them under painted would have done the rest of this work a disservice.  View a larger version of the finished piece in my Other Commissions gallery.