Daily Sketch: Berthe Morisot with Fan

Found this portrait in one of my impressionist books and loved the mystery and the negative space - wasn't bonkers about the yellow skin I saw in the photo of the painting - the one I found online is probably truer to form - but mine has yellow skin... oh well - it still turned out ok.

Berthe Morisot with Fan. Oil on Canvas, Edouard Manet, 1872.

My work in progress - oil pastels on watercolor paper -

First basic beginning of color after sketch - what is that thing below her foot?

Dropped in color mixes - was a challenge to decide what to mix with the black so it wasn't so boring.
When I sat back to look at it, I decided I wasn't crazy about how the pigment was laying on the rough paper so...


Smoothed the color with a metal palette knife - All that's left is to pull the tape off & add a frame.

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