The Final Portrait

I hope everyone reading this had a happy Christmas and great New Years. I realise it has been some time since the last update but I was given a fantastic opportunity to start working on a portrait commission for the Royal College of Surgeons here in Dublin. After I managed to get that in hand I spent the rest of the holidays getting to a point of near completion on my Venus project.

After mucking about with my pencil I finally decided to take the plunge and do the portrait…have a look at the effort so far!

I settled on the “Portrait 2” drawing that appeared in the November 15th update as it proved to be the least fussy of all the drawings and would not draw the eye away from the main theme of the painting. Let me know what you think. I found that some of the other drawings, particularly the two newest ones included here in this update might make some nice independent paintings. I’ll have to give it some thought.

Thanks for reading!

Two More Sketches

Here are two more sketches for the portrait in the painting.

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