Portrait of My Friend Mike.

This is a portrait of my friend Mike. He is a very interesting man. A hard working traveling man with a long history written in his face.
9x12 on gessoed canvas on panel. Acrylic, using an old classic technique. Many call it the Flemish technique or the 7 layer technique.
I used an umber layer for the drawing and lights and darks. Then a sort of modified grisaille layer. Thin layers of white paint to build up a gray value painting in the light areas. Then the color layer and some going back and forth. Some strengthening of the darkest parts and then the highlights.

There always seems to be some experimentation all along the process.