Portrait study in oil of a Female live model
(May 10 2022)
Spent two or three hours or more fixing this portrait. Tried to work like expressionist with black outlines, sometimes using a palette knife. Hard to paint with consistency, in the studio and at home. I had to stop before I changed too much from my original idea. That was challenging working at home without a model, I decided to leave the arm area the way it was, lucky it was used canvas, the colors matched well...