June 20th, 2008 at 3:24 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Travel, Turtles, Wildlife Art)
Here is the final painting. All that is left to do is the signature :).
June 14th, 2008 at 6:41 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Portrait, Small Paintings, Travel, Wildlife Art)
Lots of changes made this time. Next will be the final details on each turtle and tweaks throughout the painting.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:58 pm (African, An Artist's Life, Art Shows, Awards, Birds, Bobcat, Cats, Commission, Ducks, Elk, England, Floral, Fox, Grand Teton National Park, Kitten, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Moose, Nature Art, Paintings, Pheasant, Photoshoots, Portrait, Ringneck, Small Paintings, Snow Leopard, Travel, Trillium, Turtles, Wildflowers, Wildlife Art, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park, deer, fawn, white-tailed deer)
Latham Studios has been signed by Hadley House! Earlier this year we were approached by the company and now things have been finalized. We are excited to be able to share our images with an even larger audience!
May 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm (An Artist's Life, Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Small Paintings, Travel, Turtles, Wildlife Art)
Now I have darkened overall and added a bit of warm tones and the beginnings of water detail. At this stage, the lights are muted but will be brought out again as the painting progresses and the detail is further developed. The little swimming turtle has been lost for the moment. (I promise to bring him back!) 
May 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pm (Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Turtles, Wildlife Art)
Things really begin to take shape now. Staying only with a limited color palette, the painting takes on a more 3-dimensional quality. Many things still have to be addressed, but continued postings will show progress in that direction as well.
Hope you can stick with me on this one!
May 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pm (Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Wildlife Art)
The beginnings of some dark sepia tones being brought out to show dimension.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:09 pm (Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Small Paintings, Turtles, Wildlife Art, sketch)
Here is the turtle sketch transferred in sepia on a toned board.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm (Commission, Eastern Painted Turtles, Landscapes, Miniatures, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Photoshoots, Small Paintings, Turtles, Wildlife Art, sketch)
Here is the beginning of a new turtle painting, approximately 8 x 3 1/2 inches. It is designed using one of our photo references that Rebecca used for her very well received "Turtle Jam" painting. This one will require 20 turtles though. (Can you find them all?
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The foreground water will be much more developed in the painting.
Keep watching…..I plan to have this one done in a couple of months, hopefully much sooner!
Thanks for stopping by….
Karen
February 20th, 2007 at 1:44 am (Cats, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Snow Leopard, Wildlife Art)
February 8th, 2007 at 8:47 pm (Cats, Landscapes, Larger Paintings, Miscellaneous, Nature Art, Paintings, Snow Leopard, Wildlife Art)
Here is the Snow Leopard in progress (finally!!). Still lots to do with it, but I like the play of light in it thus far. I still have a few bugs to work out in the composition, but I mainly will now progress to adding more textures and color — and maybe a little more "eye candy", the fun stuff!! Keep watching!!
My Daughter Bonnie My Daughter Rebecca