Sonja In Grey - Oil Painting Portrait

I walk you through the painting of this portrait of my friend Sonja, from the palette I used, brushes and my thought process as I paint. Learn about painting vibrant flesh tones and how to turn the form with saturation. I talk about edge control, painting from reference and not being a slave to it. 

Included with the video is a  high resolution stills of the important steps and a high resolution image of the final painting. 

The video is just over 17 minutes, but represents about 10 hours of painting time. Rather than show each brush stroke as it happens, I believe that this condensed format, with my commentary, is more efficient and allows you to watch the video several times to better process the information.