Oil Portrait of a Boy with Blond Hair

8 by 10 inches, oil on hardboard

Here is a happy, handsome young fellow.

Reminds me, I recently enjoyed this video: Portrait Painting Duo with Scott Burdick and Daniel Gerhartz. They both paint the same model, with pretty different approaches and results. It’s helpful in portrait demonstrations to see how funky the paintings look in progress. To see that those are stages to work through, and not times to despair.