This journey of 100 portraits has taken me a month and a half beyond a year, and I will take the win of completion. This last portrait is of my husband. He wasn't that happy about the reference photo (messy hair!), so I don't know how he will like the portrait. But I have to go with my own sense of inspiration, and I felt it with this particular reference. I took this photo on a vacation, and that blue pattern is from the light outside at night, falling on who-knows-what on the front porch of the rental.
This 8x8" oil painting is a paint over of a bowl of soup. And that soup was a paint over. I like paint overs!
Although I don't plan to add more portraits to this blog, I am hatching other ideas about painting things I want to get better at, mostly trees. They are often the main characters in the landscape, and some artists make lovely portraits out of trees, and I would love to make that my next painting journey. Although I won't be posting more people portraits here, I will still be painting them, because I have come to love it. You will be able see any people-portrait additions in the future on my instagram or daily paintworks or my official website at tracyhurleyart.com. Thank you for following me on this 100-portrait blog!
Here are some process shots:
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