Margaret

Three-and-a-half hours. I've been watching the hell out of Morgan Weistling's and Jeremy Lipking's demonstration videos to gain some insight into how to paint portraits better. Their preferred method of painting is from the inside-out - meaning, they pick a feature and bring it to a finish, then move on to an adjacent feature and bring that to a finish, and so on and so forth until the painting is complete. I like their approach much better than blocking it in and using average tones, because I spend less time battling a mush of paint that will eventually be corrected and refined later anyway. Plus, this way I can make cool vignettes!