Here's what she looks like today.

I've finished the first coat on the portrait. I'll be glazing this painting with a green glaze soon and then do the final work.

This has been a very rewarding painting. There is something very unique that happens when I start to finish a painting. There comes a point where the glazes start to work and the painting starts to get some volume to it...some depth. Then the painting starts to trick even my meager mind and I think I can look around the person in the painting to see what's behind them. The painting starts to come to life for me. And when the subject is not with us anymore it can be a very rewarding feeling.