When you are dealing with reference photos that are not sharp images, a lot of information is lost to the artist. This makes the portrait process come to a crawl, since it is up to the artist to painstakingly fill in the missing information. I have been struggling with the dress and flowers, but think they are finally reading well enough to continue with the color application.
If you click on the tag Jeune Mariee you can see all the steps I took to create this painting.
