"Stone"

24x24- Oil on Gallery Canvas

All rights reserved - Robin Wellner

One of the challenges of doing this work of painting these beautiful animals is getting good photos.  I'm happy with the end result of this painting --- but struggled with the background.   It's completely blown out.  I finally decided that was a good thing because it allowed me to do a more abstract background - which I actually prefer. But not before I had painted the background three different times.

 Right now I'm working on a portrait of 2 little boys - actually one is just a baby.  The photo is one of those 3x5's we all used to take.  The flesh tones are almost greenish.  I hope I can do it justice!  Definitely a challenge!!  Pray for me!