First Pass and Faces

​All twelve portraits are well on their way. After weeks of close focusing on heads, hands, feet, eyes, noses and outfits, I need to step back and consider them as a group. As Patricia Miranda would say, “What do the paintings want?” And what are they saying to each other? How are they connected? What happens to the color and the space?
 
I have really enjoyed painting faces and fleshy body parts; that trope about oil paint being invented to paint flesh may well be true. I’ve been in that zone.
 
Stay tuned for some answers to these questions. (Hopefully… Maybe there are just more questions…)
 
And, in the meantime, enjoy some of these faces.