New video: how to paint a dog portrait in oil

Here’s a new real time instructional video in which we’ll walk through the steps to painting a Bernese Mountain dog. Follow along as I make crucial initial decisions on where to place the dog’s head on my panel, sketch in the features and use a limited palette to mix and place the colors using expressive brushstrokes. No speedpainting here; I complete the painting in under two hours and you get to see every color mix and paintbrush stroke.

I hope you’ll enjoy this video if you’re interested in painting pet portraits in oil. Stay tuned as I have plans for more videos on a wide range of favorite techniques using oil, watercolor, gouache, graphite, colored pencil and mixed media!

Below is the reference photo for the painting.

Sloth and Toucanet Illustrations

Illustrations

(L) Sloth, ink pen and watercolor. (R) Toucanet, oil on paper.

Illustrations of a sloth in watercolor, and a toucanet painted in oils, from photos taken at the zoo. The sloth was sketched in pencil then drawn with ink Micron pens and colored with watercolors. The toucanet was an amazingly cute little guy with a huge personality to match his beak. It was done on Moleskine sketchbook paper that was primed with several layers of Golden GAC-100 acrylic polymer and painted with quick-drying oils.

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Painting the First Tomato of the Summer in Gouache on Paper

This week I painted a tomato sandwich and made a video with commentary of the entire process from the drawing all the way through to the finished painting! Let me know if you have any questions or technique videos you'd like to see and please feel free to subscribe to my Youtube channel to be notified of future videos.