Working on a Portrait this Weekend

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I had to take a break from the painting of Taz because I have another portrait commission that slipped in. It's a graphite (pencil) portrait, and I can do those pretty quickly. The client gave me the reference photo a few weeks ago, and I am just finishing up the piece this weekend. Here is a photo of the work in progress, taken late last night. That might seem weird, but really it's no problem to work on a black-and-white piece at night. If my piece is in color, I do prefer to have natural light to ensure the colors are accurate. That's one of the reasons that the painting of Taz is taking so long to complete - the light has to be right to even work on it at all. Hope you enjoy this in the meantime. There are a lot of reflections on her glasses in the photo and the lighting is creating awkward shadows, but I'm fixing that.