Annie (Oil Commission)
This is the final version of the plein air portrait that I posted in the Open Studio thread.
I started over on the commissioned canvas (28" x 28") for this version, using several reference photos. I took the canvas outside to complete the background and bench plein air, thus insuring that the value of the background foliage wasn't as dark as it appeared in the photo.
This is one of the few times I've worked half-life/half-photo within the same painting and I liked this method very much.
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