Blue Carolina

Blue Carolina
cropped
original 33x41cm
Oil on canvas

Finally on vacation for the holidays and I stayed up until 3 in the morning last night to paint this piece, took me about 5 hours. This is my friend Carolina whom I used to practice portrait painting that I haven’t done too much. I like it a lot and would love to do it more. I find it interesting to go into the facial features. You have to be so careful because one stroke can change the whole face and it might not look like the same person anymore, or the expression might change completely. The following pictures shows the painting process, starting off with a pencil sketch.