Step 1, paint a garden of cone flowers on a 12x16" panel, let it dry, make many edits, let it dry, sand it down.
Step 2, use a reference photo purchased from Stephen Bauman of the model Ingvild and paint it 9 times. At first I brought each one along at the same rate with a sketch and a color block in. Then I used different brushes/palette knife and brought up the portraits separately to different levels of finish and different looks based on the tool chosen.
What was my aim? Mainly I wanted to make some progress on this 100-portrait project. But this strategy also forced me to do things I don't normally want to do, because I'm terrible at it, such as paint with a palette knife (bottom left) or a really big round brush (top middle). But I kind of like the double-vision effect of the 9 frames.
I put a process video (in which one stage fades to the next) on instagram. If you want to see that, go here.
Otherwise, here are a few of the in betweens used in the video:
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