Portraits by Erika Kampe- Artistic Portrayals of...

Matt rides in the Prospect Criterium Prints now available for sale at http://fineartamerica.com/featured/matt-rides-in-the-prospect-crit-erika-kampe.html A portrait in oil of my boyfriend, Matt Benti, who rides for Fort Collins Team Rio Grande. Thanks to my dad for letting me use his photo as a reference! This digital photo shows up a little light on the right side and dark on the left. I'm hoping to have a high-resolution scan (much better than this photo) done at Fine Print Imaging and make prints available to anyone...   Sports Portrait Gallery My next endeavor, so far with only one piece. More to come... Galleries   People Portrait Gallery 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.   Landscape Gallery OK, so I also do the occasional landscape piece. Here are a couple of my favorites...   Pet Portrait Gallery More to come...

Contact zhibit.org/portraits_by_erika Sign guestbook | Send message  Beaverton, OR United States About 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. Blog 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.