The Summoning of Brigid

The past two days have been spend painting this piece...thanks in part to mjranum-stock.

So far it's a total of three heavy layers of pastel. The rest of the week will probably be spent with a few touch ups here and there before the final good spray of fixative.

As I started working on this piece, I started sketching out my traditional portrait style, but Brian urged me to try something different and turn the background into abstract, which tends to be the other subject matter I explore when not working on portraits.

Since this piece is larger than most of my portraits, it will not fit on my scanner so I had to take a photograph. It's been while since I've photograph art so my skills are a bit rusty, but have my eye on a larger scanner. It's about the tenth of the price compared to most A3 scanners so I might get it shortly. cheers!