This is a portrait of my grandmother at age 18. Originally, her hair and dress were 1940 style, but she has always loved the books by Jane Austin so I changed her hair and dress to be in the Georgian Period. I took one oil painting class in college and although it was great fun I never learned the fundamentals of how to work with oil, mediums...etc. So I went online and read how the master's painted in thin transparent layers starting with an imprimatura under painting and gradually building from the brown tones to the blue tones then ochres and deep rose madder. This process of layering I was familiar with when painting my acrylics (although I have 40-50 layers with them). I think she turned out well for my first traditional oil, and I finally got the skin tones right without using "skin tone" paint for the majority of the face. I used it only as a light wash for blending. I did research for the clothing and hair by watching movies and going online to costume, paintings, and historical theatre costumes.

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