Saturday, October 4, 2025

Portrait 62/100












I included another selfie on my progress toward my 100 portrait challenge. I made this painting using a photo reference that I manipulated color-wise. It started out with a very yellow lamp light, and I didn’t like how jaundiced it made me look, so I manipulated the colors using affinity photo (a great alternative to photoshop, by the way, requiring only a 1-time payment). I recently painted my parents at this same size, and now I'm waiting for my sisters to send me their photo references so I can complete our family portrait (without the family expansions, yet).


Oil paint on 8x8" mdf panel. Process images below:


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