I used mostly Prismas and Luminance cp's with mineral spirits on 100% rag mat board. I'm almost sad I darkened the foreground. It's hard to know what to do once you have taken the plunge. Even if you photo shop values into the comp during the designing stages, there's the perspective and "reality"aspect. Would I leave a detailed background and a blank foreground? Wouldn't that be odd? My thought was that subtle roughed in details and shadowy earth tones would support the portrait without busying it up too much. What do you think?
Doberman Pincher WIP
Lucy is coming along. Her coat colors are a gigantic challenge. I have hundreds of colored pencils rolling around on the drafting table! The use of mineral spirits was crucial. Tweaking will come later. I am going to set this aside for a little while to work on something else. Plenty left to do, but I'm "Artist blind."
"Nailed It!" Two words every custom portrait artist hopes to hear.
Maize and Blue, 11x14" colored pencil on linen.
Read MoreWaiting
"Waiting," 30x16" Prismacolor Pencils on rag mat board. The reference is mine of course. If you follow my blog and work at all, you will see these three characters crop up often. This is what I imagine dog purgatory to be- that somewhere in between breakfast and when mom gets home. The cat can do as he likes, but for the moment, is interested in something outside.
I chose the french grays for inside and full color outside to create an obvious border between dream state and full awareness. I hope it works. I had to try anyway.
Who Rescued Whom? Finished
Finished photo
Read MoreHyde Park Square, Ohio, Art Show. Be there or be square!
Be there or be square! Visit Pepper Portraits LLC (me)at the Hyde Park Square Art Show this coming Sunday, Oct. 7th, 10-5. And pray for sunshine:)
Pug-witch has a new home
Pug-witch has a new home
Read MoreMargi Featured Artist on CPSA (Colored Pencil Society of America) Facebook page today.
Today I am the featured artist on CPSA's Facebook page:
" Today's featured artist is CPSA member Margie Hopkins from Ohio. She has a very interesting website....great bio, shows her process, and her love of animals is evident. One of her portraits appeared on a recent cover of the Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association."
What an honor for myself and Meghan Hopkins who created and designed my logo and website. If you wish to know more about Meghan and her freelance design, go to www.meghanhopkins.com