Portrait study in oil from a African American live model
It is the first day of our Chinese New Year. After my hesitation as to whether I should go painting, I finally decided to follow my passion and go paint. Though in our culture we celebrate new year for 15 days usually, lifestyle has to be adapted to living in a different culture. Our model was a very tall and beautiful professional African American model, she was from a very artsy San Jose family. She sat very still and had kept her facial expression too. I'm still trying to work on my duotone style in oil, struggling through for 3 hours. Our model liked the result, it made me happy. (February 1 2022)