painting in progress III

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Time spend at this time :14 hours
oils on canvas 40-50 cm}

<sup>Update:

And the final steps
Its finished. I may not paint on it anymore from the teacher because she said its done, and if i do more i will go over the top with it.

The painting is slightly different then the original

latest painting i have started a week ago: I always wanted to paint a portret since i made in school a copy of a francisco de goya painting. That copy i don't have anymore, the teacher never gave it back when it was finished

Model comes from [link]
The photo itself is not a stockphoto.

I was so enthusiastic of that serie that i didn't read the description of all the photo's and accidentally downloaded a non stock photo to use as reference.

When i visited the photo again to read the rules, i realized that it was a non stock pic, I noted the photographer with the hope to receive permission to use it as a reference for this painting . And to my great surprise and joy she made an exception.
I promised to show some in between steps of the paintings process. So here is the first one . started a week ago i think.
Its my first portet i ever paint on canvas with oils. So i hope i won't ruin it.

The start: there are some mistakes in the sketch , the mouth isn't in the right place and the nose is a bit to long, but that probably will be fixed during the painting process.
Here i just try to find the right skin color and places of shadows

For the moment I 'm a bit further on the painting but i forgot my camera today.

IF this turns out good, I will probably do a serie, mostly to become better at it. and for that one i have one of Mizzd stock in mind , and a few others. i hope at least be able to make a serie of 3 portrets this year next to maybe some other 'normal' pieces, at least normal for me</sup>