I haven't painted a portrait in a long time. My focus has been on still-life, landscape, sea-scape, figures etc. Anyway, lately I have been wanting to get back in the groove of painting heads, personality type characters and such. Anyway, this is the first attempt in a long time...from an old photo of a little girl. I look to painters like Bernard Dunstan, his approach is to draw with color. I also look to Henri, he preached keeping the background simple and had a very direct portrait painting style. Anyway, I look to paint more heads and will eventually make them larger than 10" x 8" oil sketches.
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