Just a start

04 Dec Just a start

Ok just barely started, long way to go, but is this ever fun.

I’m trying to decide how to do the window behind.  In the original photo it was a sunny summer day out there, with beach towels reflected hanging over the edge of the porch.  Is it cheating if I just say it’s night now?

This is my eldest but the other night when I was working on it and had just started roughing it in — was desperately trying to not let myself be intimidated by the fact that it’s a person and then a FACE… a face of someone I know and love — it slowly started to change to look more like my other son.  Who I also love to bits.  Right now it’s a real mix of the two.  It really made me stop and think about their features in a detail I hadn’t before, even though  I know those faces like the back of my hand.

But you know what?  I didn’t have to confess that.  I could have said it was spot on and I’m a genius.

Rats.

I’m anxious to get back and try to see if I can figure out how to bring it back to the right kid.  And I’m feeling like quite a brave girl for taking a stab at a portrait!