Painting

I've really been enjoying creating paintings from existing photos.  Here's one I did from a photo that I took of my nephew at the county fair this summer.

The photo really left a little bit to be desired, there were shadows, his eyes were too dark to see the beautiful blue, the color was off, and it was in much need of a good crop.  I decided on a vertical crop and created the painting as an 8 x 10:

Here's a crop to show you the detail in the painting:

So you can get an idea of the work that was involved, I've included a small version of the original photo so that you can see that it really was just a routine snapshot and likely not something that I would have selected to print very large if at all.