Take a portrait painting class. My great nephew Milo was my first attempt.

Painted from a photo, focus was on mixing shades of gray.

This is from a photo of our good friend Shiloh. The assignment was to quickly paint based on focusing on negative painting. I did not first draw this out. Shocked how good this turned out.

This week the portrait painting class teacher had us paint a live subject, her. This was quite a different experience. We had 2 hours.