I always get lazy when I paint a portrait.
This one of Rhiannon I did in about an hour for a demo in my acrylic class. It was from a photograph she took as a self portrait. I wonder if I will ever finish it?

I should be going to bed instead of messing around with this stuff but it is much less messy than getting out my acrylics..... This is from another one of those acrylic on paper paintings. This is one of my experimentations. Its actually only a small detail from a larger painting

Its amazing how you can "soup up the color" on pictures with photo shop. I am finding it an interesting tool for deciding on the next step for a painting. This is one of three abstract acrylic on paper paintings I have been working on and off [mostly off] on for about a year.
The real painting looks much less color saturated than shown here. Just by clicking on "auto contrast" I got this.
Much easier than painting and repainting over and over again which I must admit I have already done. I tend to do that with abstracts.
By looking at this I know how I am going to finish it now.