Soldiering On – gouache portrait painting

Soldiering On
Gouache portrait painting
WIP

Work in progress

I wish I hadn’t been in a rush to “fix” the blooming gouache in this portrait. Looking at the progress shots now, I prefer his eyebrow the way it was, but I guess I didn’t see how cool it looked as I was painting.

Soldiering On
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Oh, well. I guess I was in a “tighter, less loose” frame of mind when I was painting this one. I like the finished piece, but I like the progress shots better. It happens. After all these years, I sometimes don’t know when to hit the pause button when I’m painting.

If I was able to relive the moment his eyebrow bloomed once again, I would stop dead in my tracks, let it dry, and then make some slight adjustments. That’s all it really needed.

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