This is a portrait of Maris T, who modeled for photographs by @bcliston, so thank you to both of them for the lovely reference photo.
I painted the portrait in several stages. The first one involved making an acrylic underpainting in red and yellow. The second was identifying the general area where I wanted sparkly bits to appear in the curtain, and I glued imitation gold leaf there. In the third, I approximated colors all through the painting. For the face, I made a light color and a shadow color and applied big flat areas of paint. I let that sit for a few days because we lost power in our office/studio and I was thinking that frostbite was imminent (not likely, tho--I'm in SoCal). The heat returned and I finished up the modeling of the face and fixing proportions and colors. This one was hard!
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