Elise - weekly portrait, Debbie Miller

 

10x10 oil on panel

Painted Elise tonight. 

Faces

The endlessly fascinating face and a new phone app - so happy

Chrissy - portrait painting,Debbie Miller

Painting faces is with out a doubt my favorite, and this is my favorite face painting of late. 
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past the 50 mark with the portrait project - Yay!  and now heading up the wall

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Portrait study - debbie miller



6x6" oil on panel

Painting or drawing the figure from life - there is nothing like it. 
This was a quick 20 min. pose. 

(now that I sit here looking at it, reminds me of a really skinny Santa....eat Papa eat!)

Portrait of Julie - portrait painting,Debbie Miller



10x10 oil on panel. 
After painitng for almost 2 days straight, it was nice to take a break from the cupcakes and get back to my favorite pastime - painting heads :) 
Still on a painitng roll though I did 2 of this model.  They are both posted over on the "About Face" blog.
HERE

Portrait Study,Debbie Miller

 10x10 oil
With my portrait studies, I use a pale orange ground, usually a burnt sienna thinned with turp. 
 Then I block in the lights and darks with an umber.
But my favorite part is getting to use that delicious cad. red light.  Nose,ears and corner of eyes.

 Here is the model.  Tomorrow the finished painting will be posted on the About Face blog.

 More Orange... "Woman on Orange" by Kerry Smith, here is an invite to his show.

Däna - portrait painting,Debbie Miller

10x10 oil on panel
Very happy with this one....and my new ability to put those 2 dots above the a!
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Lindsey - portrait painting,Debbie Miller,

10x10" oil on panel.
With out a doubt - painting faces - is my favorite thing to do. It never gets dull.
Sometimes I see people and think 'ooooh great face, I would love to paint that face".
So if you know me and I'm looking at you funny - dont worry - nothing is stuck in your teeth... I'm just working out a painting in my head :)
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Fascinator - portrait painting,Debbie Miller,red roses

10x10 oil.

Now that's a fascinator hat. I had fun painting this one.

Great hat + beautiful girl makes for easy painting.

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