I like the long neck and slight attitude coming from the woman in the reference photo, so thank you to Sofia Carroll on the Museum by Sktchy app for posting it. The photo had a lot of stuff in the background, which I didn't want to strip away entirely, so I made geometric shapes out of it That's a clothes closet at the right! I used these colors: titanium white, burnt umber, naphthol red, hansa yellow medium, and ultramarine blue, and decided to keep most of his painting muted (in comparison to what I usually do with high chroma).
8x8" oil on panel. Here is a progress series:
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