This painting takes on a more colorful, vibrate approach. While the underpainting is still at play, there is less emphasis on a monochromatic underpainting, but more on a spontaneous splashes of highly chromatic colors using direct painting technique. Of course, as usual, the face is treated with realistic precision, and outward towards looser brushstrokes. The relationship of values is still the most crucial, but there is more of the high and low values in the surroundings, whereas the midtones are closely assembled for the face to create a separate area of focus. These factors make this particular painting deviate from my previous portraits.
