Thank you to Karen R on the Museum by Sktchy app for the lovely reference photo. I love the way the light gently illuminates her face, and I tried my darndest to model her face to give it proper volume. The closeup below shows the brushstroke minutiae.
This is a 6x8" oil painting on a thin mdf panel. Paints used: Naphthol red, Hansa yellow medium, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, and warm titanium white. My strategy on this one was to create an average dark color and an average light color for the skin tones, plus a medium dark for the hair and eyes, and then to cover most of the panel with these average tones. The next million years were spent placing small brushstrokes of subtly different colors all over the image.
Here are some in-between shots:
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