It's difficult to do "head on" pictures of kids, especially with frontal lighting.
I "underpainted" the canvas with pale blue to make her skin translucent. The hair is impressionistic, using colors in her face and the background.
Oil on canvas, 11 x 14
A mosaic of the painting. The small tiles are actually other paintings I've made.
The girl's mother when she was about the same age. You see where she got the blue eyes.
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