This is probably the most difficult portrait I have done. It was not done with a photo (I would have got a much better one!) but by looking at myself in the mirror. The difficulty is that one cannot paint any time. You have to choose the same time every day till it is finished as you have to try and get the same light. As soon as the light changes, it is not you, but someone else! With painting from photographs, the light is already down, so you just do it as it is. One must also realise that the image is reversed, but that's the way you know and see yourself every day!

To see the portrait go to www.ipernity.com/doc/cvalin/album/88788

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