I’m well into my painting for June and truly digging oils. To paraphrase a line from the movie Hellraiser, “To think, I hesitated.” It’s going well enough and I’m mostly confident in my work now. The portrait is still not 100% accurate to the appearance of the individual in my source photo, but it’s fairly close.

I’m digging portraits enough that I bought an “old masters” guide for portrait work with a gift card I had laying around. Normally I’m not one for the “how-to” books, since I feel like I should know the important stuff. However, this book looks like it has some meat to it. We’ll see how it goes.

14"x18" Oil on Canvas Board. Work in Progress