bedlam

Painted this at a local gallery that had timed the modeling session with some
sort of 'Art and Wine' street fest. So about 100 drunks trouped by while I worked
on it. I enjoyed listening to a cognoscente describe to his friends what I was doing,
while I personally had no clue! About halfway through I thought this was a lost
cause with chalky skin and flat purple shadows. But I brought modeling into the
shadow side with dark oranges over the cool that helped rescue it. I switched to
14" x 16" which is much better for portraits. In retrospect, I was nuts to have been
painting portraits on 12" x 16".