Luciana’s Portrait, Finishing Up

Well I’ve been very tardy with my posts. I have a million excuses but they are just excuses. Anyway, I’ve joined in an eight-day challenge sponsored by The Abundant Artist, #AbundantArtShow and today’s challenge is to show my work. My previous posts Luciana’s Portrait, Session One and Two display earlier effort. Today I would like to share a few intermediate works as I near the finish.

As you can see the painting has developed significantly over the past few months. I’ve delayed signing the final version because I’m not quite ready to let go. I want to tweak the nose a bit more and I’ll probably mess with the left fist covered mostly be the right hand. As Karl says, you need to people to paint one to do the work and one to tell you when to stop.