Joie de Vivre: COMPLETE!

It's finished! I posted a digital copy on FAA today for sale. I will be framing the original later today and will put that up for sale as well. I'm pleased with the final painting and I'm already trying to decide what I want to do next. Here is the final painting.

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To follow the step by step process of creating this painting here is a link to the first post.

Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 11

Still plugging along. I've gone to mixing a glazing medium into my paint now to get some better blends in these final layers. Here is the painting as it sits on my easel tonight.

To see the process to get to this point read on after the break.

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Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 10

Here is the painting today as it sits on my easel

I changed a lot of things so to see what it was changed, step by step, read after the break.

Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 9

I made a little more progress today and I am at the point now 

where it will probably go a little slower as I work on small things that bother me.

So today I made a video of all the photos I have taken of the process so far, here it is:

The final image in the video is where it sits right now. To see how I got there read after the break.

Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 8

It has been a very productive day painting. I guess I'm going to end the year on a high note. Here is my painting as it sits on my easel right now.

To see how I got to this point read after the break for the step by step pictures.

Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 7

I've been doing a lot more looking and thinking and a lot less painting lately. I finally figured out that his nose was too long making him look like some kind of evil elf.  To fix it I painted out the eyes and moved them down lower. Here is how it looks on my easel right now.

To read the step by step process of how I got to this point continue on after the break.

Joie de Vivre Work in Progress 6

I have been working slower now and looking at the painting a lot more in between. Here is how it looks sitting on the easel right now.

The face has been quite a war since I removed his hat. His face was originally in shadow and now it is in the light so I have to make it up as I go.Overall though I am pretty happy with how it is going. For the step by step pictures read more after the break.