Learning a new skill is always a challenge. I took the photographs of this painting in two different places under two different lights. Thus the challenge of comparing these two. Sigh. But I think you get the idea. The little boy is just a generic boy that the teacher is having us all paint. I have a ways to go on it. Next week I want to try painting someone I know. It will have more emotional content then, of course.

Boy if you don't work with portraits you forget everything you were ever taught! I will probably just work on the boys face...it's the only important part of the painting. The boy is really a blond like in the first painting...not a red head like he looks in the second photo.