second painting for class

I used a photo of a cute flowergirl with its great shadows for my second painting. She is a definite improvement over Miss Potatoface.

Woman's portrait class

I am having fun taking Jane DesRosier's Woman's Portrait Class this weekend. I tried to work from an old photograph of a lady from the 1920's. It came out a bit different, you can sort of recognize her; I like how she turned out, but she isn't a real strong realistic likeness. Will try for another one tonight! Let me introduce you to Miss Potato Face!

after watching Jane's first new video

Ok, jumped back into the paint tonight.
I had tried doing a collaged background using squares of fabric and extra thick Golden medium.
Coated the fabric with medium, and when dried, painted over in a thin green glaze. you can see places I missed with the glaze because they soaked up the paint!
Then I sat around waiting for inspiration.....
.....saw Jane's short video today and decided to give it a try!
I took your advice also about not worrying too much about the features, blocked in the head and shoulders with white gesso, and did a rough sketch of the face with a pencil.
Then tried to remember how Jane built her face, and went from there.
I was pretty pleased how it turned out, until I realized that I had painted it with the hole for hanging on the bottom......