New Commissioned Portraits

I have such joy when I am involved in doing a portrait for a client.  Especially when the subjects are as beautiful as these two gorgeous standard white Poodles.  I took photos of one of the portraits from start to finish and will post them here... Enjoy...

Beginning the Graphite Drawing:

                       Closeup of the details with first watercolor wash..............
And more wash added to the graphite...

 Moving down to the throat and into the body of the dog with watercolor, subtleties carefully modeled...

                    Detail of the nose....

 Finished painting...

And the second dog, done in the same manner.....