This handsome guy is a commissioned piece, so thank you to Karen for asking me to paint her son. In the reference photo, I believe it is Karen standing behind him in a shirt of a gorgeous blue (lots of phthalo!), and that made a wonderful background color for this portrait. This painting proceeded pretty smoothly, except at the end, when Karen noticed that I had made his nose too bulbous. A mother can see everything, and she was absolutely right! So I fixed that and brought the likeness closer to him. And now she is happy and so am I!
I put some process shots, including the painting before the requested edits, below. This painting is in oil paint on a 6x8" mdf panel.
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