Pres - Final

14 x 14 acrylic on stretched canvas

I worked on this a little more this a.m. and it's about all I intend to do.  Acrylic is not as forgiving as oil and it just sits on the canvas - doesn't lend itself to blending much and to me is a harsher look but I wasn't really going for "pretty portraiture" here, just a fun type painting.  I wish I could do caricatures, I love them!

Pres - Take I

 14 x 14 acrylic on stretched canvas

This is after the first session on my grandson.  It will hang with the portrait of my granddaughter I did a week or so ago.   He always makes silly faces when posing (he's 5) and this was taken at the beach with him trying on large sunglasses.    The actual painting isn't this yellow.  I just took it in artificial light at night so the colors don't ring true at all.  I have some more touches for it but I must be finished by tomorrow afternoon since we will be seeing them this weekend hopefully.

Pres' Tam O' Shanter

12 x 20 oil on canvas panel

This is my grandson, Pres, posing in his Tam O' Shanter (sp?).  He struck this pose one morning when he came into his parents' room and leaned up against the wall with his juice bottle.  He is real funny and very serious about his clothes - hence the knit shirt with the collar standing up.  He has been wearing his shirts like that since he was about 2.  My daughter in law had her IPhone and snapped this one and sent to us.  The actual painting has richer colors but I still am having difficulty in certain light situations getting the photo to mimic the actual painting.