We painted last night at Jeremy's for the 1st night in a while. I did a self portrait while Jeremy did 2 paintings of me painting. Here is the sketch and the nights fruition.

Yaaaay, I think its all finished. I lightened up the background and added a few more details to the faces and eyes. Now the piece feels well balanced and every ones faces seem sincere and believable.

Its really coming along, everything is laid in and now I just have to make some finishing tweaks. I'm not sold on the background and have to decide on where to take it, but the forms are all there and I'm happy with the likenesses.

I started a new commissioned piece for my buddy Phil. It's a Christmas present so I have to knock it out on a pretty tight deadline but so far I'm making good progress. I started with a base drawing to layout all the forms but didn't get too crazy with the details or shading, I'll save that for the actual painting.



After the drawing I did a brown rub on top to unify everything all the paint that will follow. The portrait is of 3 people who have passed away so I thought the brown sepia tone would help give the piece a aged quality . The next day once the wash was dry I did my 1st pass with paint. I tried to get a good base on all the skin tones, and blocked in the eyes and the clothing.