These 8x8" oil paintings were especially wonderful to paint because I love these people so much. My dad acquiesced to a photo shoot, which he usually hates doing, because I wanted to include him in my portrait project. The portrait shows him in his living room with some of his environment defined, although I made the plant behind him and the rest of the room semi-abstract. I'm trying to avoid my portraits looking too much like photos and give a few obvious clues that they are paintings. With my mom, we were out on a walk and there was green all around. Instead of painting the foliage around her, I decided some panels of different greens would work (at least for me). On my palette for these two: titanium white, ultramarine blue, pyrrole red, hansa yellow medium, yellow ochre, and phthalo green. That green is yummy.
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