Oil on Canvas, 30 inches x 20 inches
This world would have been a boring place if nobody bother to create music, paint beautiful things, or dance to songs.
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The following color study was completed about 10 days ago, in preparation for the final painting above.
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Here is the same portrait after about 2 days, roughly 6 hours, of painting from a live model. This is one of My favorite stage of any portrait sitting—everything is super loose, I am not committed to anything, but just seeing and painting.
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And, then follows a slower—but lovely—stage of looking and painting until the portrait is completed, or the time with the model ends.
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