Saturday, May 24, 2025

Portrait 39/100

 











This is a paintover. I like painting over older paintings. It removes that old painting (which I don't love) from my stack, gives me a surface to paint on that already is primed with oil paint (I just sand it down a bit) and sometimes a ghost of the old painting shines through in interesting ways. I've been meaning to paint this portrait for a long time. It's a lovely reference photo taken by Bryce C Liston of model Vera. So thank you to those two for the inspiring reference!

8x8" oil paint on linen panel.




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