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Jackson
Jul 8, 2015
Jackson. 14x14, oil on linen. 2015 Like other portraits that I've recently completed, this painting of Jackson was done over several weeks. I spent a lot of time trying to work out the design and did several color studies before I landed on a scheme that seemed to fit. The colors used we...
Cheyenne
Jun 29, 2015
Cheyenne. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015 Before staring this sketch portrait I made a note for myself to use delicate paint handling and keep the key at a high value. The portrait that I did earlier in the year, before she passed, of our dog Hannah was a great help in establishing the palette and o...
Phish
Jun 29, 2015
Phish. 16x16, oil on linen. 2015 With the studio tour over and done (and what a great weekend it was!), I realized that I needed to catch up on my backlog of work. Over the past week I've been locked away in my studio trying to get ahead with the five commissioned paintings that I've promised to do ...
A Small Portrait of Hannah
Mar 30, 2015
A Small Portrait of Hannah. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 A small painting of our dog, Hannah, that I painted this afternoon. I started it as a workshop demo which was subsequently scraped off - this is a smaller version or the original. I had already done a value study and a color study. That...
Taking Some New Photos of an Older Painting
Jan 20, 2015
Hannah on the Sofa. 24x30, oil on linen. 2007? This painting of Hannah hangs in our living room. I don't recall exactly when I painted it, but I'm guessing it was 2007 or early 2008. At this point I'd been painting in oils for a few years and created this large painting to help with marketing ...
More Work on the Portrait of Grace
Dec 3, 2014
A continuation of a painting started here: http://www.portraitsbysimonbland.com/blog/post/color-study-and-block-in-for-a-portrait-of-grace I started the opaque layer of the portrait with the face because it's the most important part of the portrait and the obvious center of interest. Beginning...