Jan 30th: Finished Acrylic Portrait

Yesterday around 11:00, I finished the Santiago's second portrait. I un-glossed the background and finished the hands. Hands are so difficult! The only part of the portrait that I'm not fond of is the hands of the youngest son. I don't think they turned out well, but I was out of time and told myself to deal with it. On both babies, the hands had a foreshortened finger and I'm not the best with foreshortening. Or hands. So it wasn't the best combination.

After I'd finished, I went back to the first painting and re-painted the eyes on the youngest boy. They were too close together and I couldn't leave it that way. It was driving me nuts. I'm glad the paintings are done and I think that they taught me a lot. They were my first canvas paintings of people. In hindsight, I wish I would have given the first painting a background, but I hope that it'll look good in their house regardless.