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.
Ruminations about being human in a world that expects more...