Painting I - Portrait

For this assignment, we had to paint a portrait of someone we had only seen once. It could be someone we had walked past on the street or sat with in a room, but not someone we knew personally. I chose to take a very abstract approach on painting a portrait of someone based on the shape of their face, the curve of their jaw... even the jewelry and clothing they had on that day, but I didn't want to paint their image directly. Each of the four canvases is about 3' square and depicts a different aspect of my subject's appearance.

I started out with a few layers of acrylic to set up the overall composition:

 

And the final painting:

 

Ringling purchased the top two canvases. My favorite is the top-right: