This was the painting that revealed to me the difficulty in painting faces (or portraits) in a small oil painting with loose brush-strokes. Lesson learned: you can't paint the face with fine detail and fussy brushstrokes, or it looks inconsonant with the rest of the painting. So how do you paint a face with loose strokes and broad definition and still give the impression of a face? Obviously, I did not solve the question with this painting. This is supposed to be my adorable husband, seated on some riprap on a jetty. It's a pretty good likeness of everything except, well, the face. Which is kind of important. (No. 14, 6x8", on Raymar canvas panel, Sept. 6, 2012)
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