A portrait of a beauty. Oil painting on linen.
To paint men is practice, but women inspiration, and I stand by it 🙂
I sketch and draw my family members quite a bit. Although it has become less in the past few years. It is specially hard to get the children (teenage and adults) to pose now. Painting is a little more elaborate and requires setup and time from the model, therefore I get very little cooperation on that from family members. This painting was done from a photograph from 12 years ago, it will replace the charcoal drawing of my wife that hangs in our house.
Here is a Video Link of the making of the painting.
This painting was an exercise in background manipulation. This painting went through several iterations. I tried the background full of stacked houses first, then removed the background houses and replaced it with a large hill and then finally I settled for this one with few houses on one side and the wide expanse of the sky. Of course the star of this painting is the red boat. The orange/red contrast with the purple/blue shadow and water was a lot of fun.