Por­trait of Samantha

This is my first pas­tel por­trait of Saman­tha and her first long term pose at Hip­bone Stu­dio in Port­land, Ore­gon. I fin­ished this draw­ing in two ses­sions, it’s done in Nupas­tels on unfa­mil­iar paper that a stu­dent traded me for my tra­di­tional Stone­henge. It took me a while to get used to the tex­ture. The tooth is soft and most of the pas­tel falls off of the sur­face. I was frus­trated with the first layer and con­sid­ered scrap­ping the draw­ing. I was going to paint in oil on the sec­ond ses­sion but had for­got­ten to prep when the time came. I pulled this one back out of the ash can and spent the next three hours or so tweak­ing it. That’s Samantha’s body, she says her face looks like a hybrid of her and Cather­ine Deneuve.

Check out Samantha’s hats at Etsy.