Tag Archives: commissioned portraits
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1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
Posted on January 25, 2009 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedFinished! Or so I thought….. reworking opening eyes and continuing to contour her face, find highlights Sigh. I promise I will have other art soon to show you besides my daughter’s portrait. I thought I was done. Twice, actually. But no. Maybe you remember when I began this portrait I had no end point in [...]
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Just a little bit more….
Posted on January 20, 2009 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedI have continued to adjust the shading and skin tone on my daughter’s portrait. This is where I’ve left off and am going to let the paint dry and re-evaluate if it is done at that point. I know I told you it was done days ago! It is helpful to let the paintings sit [...]
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Painting Faces, Expression and Emotion in Vibrant Color!
Posted on January 16, 2009 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedOil Painting Portrait by Sue Steiner 2009 I have chosen the phrase above to be my theme for 2009. I am streching my artistic wings by working on some very personal portraits for the next few weeks. I’ve been wanting to incorporate more people in my artwork so what better way to expand than by [...]
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‘My Flower Child’, oil portrait WIP
Posted on December 29, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedI started this last night. This is my daughter when she was 5. She was my carefree, free spirited barefoot little flower child! We lived on an 80 acre farm at the end of a long lane on a dead end road. My kids ran around barefoot and wind blown and had an absolute ball! [...]
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Wildlife Art in Oils, ‘Elk’
Posted on December 27, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedAhhh, I am back to painting and it feels SO good! Its only been a few days but I really miss it when I don’t paint. I completed the elk painting that I was working on before Christmas. This wildlife painting in oils was given as a gift and then brought back so I could [...]
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"Faith" portrait completed
Posted on September 30, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedI finished my ‘Faith Like a Child’ portrait last night. I may do some fine tuning but not much more since she’ll be needing to head to the Mosaic Art Experience very soon! This portrait has whet my appetite to do more people portraits. When I can I’ve decided to paint portraits of each of [...]
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Dog Portraits
Posted on September 3, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedI thought I would share with you a ‘work in progress’ watercolor of a dog portrait. I love the sweet expression of this yellow lab. This will be a watercolor/graphite painting. I am using the graphite to give some texture and detail to the fur. I am working on darks right now– getting the contour [...]
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Fiber Animal Art
Posted on August 22, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedThis lovely creature is owned and loved by Finney Fiber Farm in California. She needs just a few finishes touches before heading off to her new home. This painting is an alpaca portrait, 24 x 30 acrylic on gallery wrap canvas, which needs no framing. To see more of my animal art go to http://www.suesteiner.com [...]
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Zeus, a Dog Portrait
Posted on May 8, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedI finished this watercolor pet portrait last night. Zeus is a little fox terrier with loads of personality! He is often seen at soccer games with swarms of children around him. Zeus is used to drawing a crowd! I liked this pose and expression because it looks like Zeus is well aware of the stir [...]
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Buggy Barn Mural ‘Work in Progress’
Posted on February 28, 2008 by Sue Steiner in UncategorizedThis is what I did today at Lehman’s in the Buggy Barn! This is an Amish family cow. Jersey’s are often used as a family cow by the Amish. When we had our organic farm my husband bought 6-8 Jersey steers one year to graze on our pastures for grass fed beef. They were obviously [...]
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