Out of the blue, I thought it would be neat to try my hand at oil painting. I got fed up with making a digital painting, sending it to the printers and having it arrive different than anticipated - many times too dark. With oil painting, what you see is what you get. Plus, spending some time away from a computer screen could be good for me.
So I made my first attempt - a 24x24" portrait of my daughter.
It was definitely an overly ambitious attempt - 24x24" is not a small canvas and I didn't have the first idea how to handle oil paints. I was lucky it turned out as nicely as it did. The pose, composition, and aspect ratio worked well. However, there are lots of problems with it. The ear and neck are incorrectly drawn and rendered. There is also something odd about the eye. Probably the thing that strikes me as most amature-ish is the washed out, monochromatic color of the skin. I really like this painting, but there is lots of room for improvement.
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