My oil portrait process.

Below is an 11×14 sketch on tracing paper.  I have started doing more prep work on my oil portraits to make sure I get the drawing correct first.  The extra time spend drawing here made the painting go so smoothly.  I highly recommend trying this.  I hope the buyer enjoyed having a pencil sketch along with the painting.

In the unfinished portraits you can see my yellow underpainting.  I don’t know why I chose yellow, but it worked.   I started the color down in the hands and fabric to ensure that I didn’t use all my energy on the face then rush through the fabric.  This worked well for me.

Here is the finished painting:

Goodbye, Flannery.

Yes, the Flannery painting sold.  It is in transit to New York at this moment, having been purchased by the front man for the band Islands.  At imagekind.com, prints are available.

Tomorrow, I will eat heart-shaped cookies with my husband and kids.

Happy Valentines Day!

Hugs make great gifts.

11×14 oil portrait on canvas.  Sold through my etsy shop.

This was a last minute Christmas gift for some lucky mom.

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I am test-driving Imagekind.

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Visit my gallery to purchase prints of my work:

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This is the first time prints have been available for these images.