Portrait study in oil of a Female live model
Our first time to paint this new model Melisa today. I started with a used 12"x16" canvas. One artist friend mentioned to me that she would be confused working on uncovered used canvas. I felt OK, and tried to paint with new style after not working at the studio about two weeks. My speed and correction were not as good as two weeks ago. The painting wasn't near finished after 3-hour-session. (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...