Revising – In the Silence After Dinner portrait painting

Revising – In the Silence After Dinner portrait painting

Over the years, I have painted this portrait three times. The first one had a green background, and it sold within ten minutes of me listing it. I love when that happens. 

I found this one in my storage the other day, and it had a gray background. It was kinda blah, so I decided to revise it. 

The green background from the first painting is still fresh in my mind, even though I painted it back in 2013ish. So the gray had to go. I blocked it out with a mixture of gesso and white paint. 

Next, she needed a complete face lift..new eyes, nose, and lips. 

Yowzers! The only green I had mixed up in my paint pots was this, which is more of a yellow fluorescent than green. I’m still not sure if this is going to end up being the background color or not, but given that it might, I also added some of it to her cheeks to balance it out. 

Revising – In the Silence After Dinner portrait painting
Work in progress

This is where I’m going to leave off for today because I don’t have any more photographs to show you. I revised this portrait a couple weeks ago, so I think she’s finished now. 

I’ve been letting it sit for a while to be sure I like it before taking more photos of it. I hate going to all the work of photographing & listing something, and then decide I want to change it again. Ugh. I think I’m going to keep the very bold, colorful look, but I keep wavering. I’m going to wait at least another week before I go to the trouble of photographing it..just in case I change my mind about the colors.