A friend of mine was leaving for Italy to pursue his musical career. His girlfriend is Italian and he wanted something to give to her parents when he got there. We decided on a portrait of his girlfriend and her sister.

I really like how it turned out, I feel like it would also work well for a business portrait.

Two very beautiful ladies! 

































This painting is a triptych of layered blues and silver reminiscent of spiraling water.


Before the painting dried, I applied layers of dark and light iridescent glitter overtop.
This gives the illusion of sparkling water as the painting is looked at from different angles.





For this painting, I began with the sky above and the ground below.

I painted over the earth with different hues of browns and black to resemble the layers underground.

The sky was a stormy mix of blues and grey which I washed over to resemble a storm raining down and wearing away the layers of the earth.















Over the years, I have painted many dog portraits for family and friends, 
here are some of them:



Zelda the Belgian Shepherd 

Akila the Husky - R.I.P. buddy 
Lexi the Boxer















I started this painting with a washed brown canvas which gave me the feeling of warm, mossy jungle tones.

I continued mixing in greens and browns, eventually creating a line in the middle where the colors stream down like vines hanging from branches. I finished it off with a palette knife textured line of gold and copper across the middle.




  


It displays well on rich coloured walls, such as dark purple.