Wednesday Night Portrait

I feel like a lot of these Wednesday night portraits from life boil down to me going “here’s the painting I made and here’s why I hate it. And on the drive home from class tonight I was thinking about how I hate this one too, and then began thinking about how I probably don’t really hate theses pieces. If I hated them all, I’d probably stop doing this at some point. I think it’s probably more fair for me to say that when working from life, there is way more information than I could ever get down in a three hour period of time, and that there’s always more that I wish I could do, or that I wish I’d focused on something else - that I’d taken this part further, or this part not quite as far. So I’m unsatisfied, but I learned from the experience, as I always do. And each one objectively helps me get better. And that is, after all, what I‘m actually trying to do wit this thing…

-ZR