Specializing in portraits by commission of pets and people. Located in Beaverton, Oregon. Media include oil paint, watercolor, oil pastel, charcoal and more. Work from candid photos of your loved ones.
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 | | Here is a mix of some of my favorite portraits.
Many are in oil, but you'll see that I also enjoy using watercolor paint and drawing media such as charcoal, conte crayons and oil pastel.
I love to balance light and dark to illuminate the subject, while playing up subtle textures and colors.
My paintings are usually at (or slightly larger than) life size. |
 | | OK, so I also do the occasional landscape piece. Here are a couple of my favorites... |
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 | | My next endeavor, so far with only one piece. More to come...
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Beaverton, OR
United States
| I recently moved from Fort Collins, Colorado to Beaverton, Oregon.
While I have enjoyed drawing and painting for most of my life, I am relatively new to the world of professional art. I have also donated several pieces to charity auctions, to such organizations as the Colorado State University Wildlife Society , the Humane Society of Boulder Valley and the Boulder-Jalapa Friendship City Project .
I am inspired by the human face and the challenge of capturing a true likeness of my subject. I strive for a contemporary, realistic style that plays up color, light and contrast. I enjoy painting portraits that place the subject in an interesting, more candid and less traditional pose.
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| First layer complete!
Now on to refining, smoothing, adding detail (still in the monochrome)... | | Part-way through the underpainting
Right now I'm focusing on laying down a base (with greeny-back and white) to get the general feel for the shapes and values of the piece. | | Master's Reproduction- Intro.
Here's my first blog- devoted to painting a reproduction of William Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil in Hell (this is a photo of the original). Scary? Yes. But it's also going to teach me a lot about how to paint figures in the classical style. |
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