This is the 1st posting on a portrait I'm working on for some recently married friends, Darren and Dalia Mitchel.
I had taken a bunch of pictures of this painting, documenting all the steps but unfortunately my computer deleted all the pictures. So here it is about half way, everything is established and I already took a second pass at Darren's head. For this one I started with a really detailed drawing because its an old friend and I wanted to make sure I got the likeness down. After a few nights of painting everything is laid in and I've just added a background color. I really like to leave parts of the painting raw and unfinished like the jacket and flowers, keeping your attention to the heads and expressions. Even their hair is pretty simple, the white highlights on his is the white canvas below.
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