Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Portrait 70/100











I started this painting of a lovely young woman at a portrait session in Alhambra, and then I took it home and finished it from a photo. Most of my struggles came from the background. As you can see, I started with a beige (matching reality), then a purple, and then somehow landed on this abstract color bomb!




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