Pet Portrait: Carmela the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier

Meet Carmela, the Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier from the family of a man who was generous enough to buy my portrait services at the Orlando Foundation auction this year.  She was a doozy.

Paper Used: Strathmore Premium Recycled Drawing Paper (400 Series) cut to 11x14".

Prismacolor Colored Pencils Used:

Indigo Blue - PC901
Light Cerulean Blue - PC904
Cloud Blue - PC1013
Blue Violet Lake - PC1079
Greyed Lavender - PC1026
Deco Yellow - PC1011
Black - PC935
90% Cool Grey - PC1067
70% Cool Grey - PC1065
50% Cool Grey - PC1063
30% Cool Grey - PC1061
White - PC938
Dark Umber - PC947
Sienna Brown - PC945
Clay Rose - PC1017
Pink Rose - PC1018
Rosy Beige - PC1019
Ginger Root - PC1084
Beige - PC997
Deco Peach - PC1013
Cream - PC914

Time Spent: 47 hours and 7 minutes

I know, I know, that is a heck of a lot of time spent on a portrait of this size.  Trust me, I was more than just slightly antsy towards the end considering portraits of this size usually only take half that time.  I blame the long hair with layers of color in the "white" fur!  Clearly I have something to work on in the future.

Things To Work On: Backgrounds.  Especially on straight portraits like this where it is a close up on the face.  Maybe just shading, maybe shading of a color, not sure yet as this has always been a hard thing for me considering how indecisive I am.  Maybe I will start printing out small images of the portraits to try out different things next time.

Up Next: A black Shepard mix named Urendel.  With a name like that, there's no way this dog isn't special!

Until next time! Lauren H.
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