Friday, September 12, 2025

Portrait 59/100


 










My plein air painting buddy, Bill, invited me to a live model session in which he was the model. I managed to get a pretty good likeness during the live model session, which made me very happy. Then I took my painting home looked more carefully. In addition to not giving him hair, I made his head too wide. So fixing happened. And I couldn't help but get out my phthalo green for that background. Now the painting has a little more diversity of color.

 

Oil paint on 8x8" mdf panel.


Here are some process shots:



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