The top one almost looks like Sharon Stone

Thanks for your comment.
Zoe

Your web site gives me an encouragement.
I feel I need to work harder.

Take care,
Akio

i have been keeping up with your blog- thanks for sharing… i love the progress you are making. it’s a great challenge. keep up the great work- i will be checking in regularly

big hugs,
.zena.

I think my goal in this challenge, beyond just completing a painting a day, is to explore both theme and style and use each painting as an experiment. That means to some extent, expect the unexpected, because I plan to change it up fairly continuously.

However, that being said, I love portraiture, so that theme may appear more than others. I may in the future do something like you described, and try to do the same subject using many different styles or perspectives.

On the subject of photographing the work, I have a 500w work light that I use while I paint, and if I’m photographing at night, then I generally use the light to shoot the still wet and thus very reflective work. I don’t have a professional light set up for this yet, so I held the light at an angle so the light bounced off a wall and lit the painting with diffused light and virtually no glare.

Thanks again for your interest!