more recent studies

For this color and light study on verdaccio I've used as a reference one of Bouguereau's self portraits, 40x50cm oil on canvas

Experimenting with the 7-layer Flemish Technique, A Rose, 30x40cm oil on canvas

After Eugene de Blaas, The Eavesdropper, 35x60cm oil on canvasAfter Eugene de Blaas, Die Wassertragerin, 30x50cm oil on canvas

More recent studies

My daughter Illy - 40x50cm, oil on canvas

Maya - 50x60cm, oil on canvas

From the WetCanvas Portrait Challenge - Edith, 40x50cm oil on canvas

Latest Bouguereau study - Apres le bain - 40x60cm, oil on canvas

A larger Bouguereau study, La Charite - 100x130cm, oil on canvas

From Jonathan Hardesty's online broadcast "Worldwide painting", his beautiful wife Marie - 40x50cm, oil on canvas

An improvisation from the WetCanvas Portrait Challenge. The Musician - 50x60cm, oil on canvas

finish of Bouguereau's head study of a blonde girl

30x40cm, oil on canvas

another baby

30x40cm, oil on canvas

after Ingres - Betty von Rothschild

60x50cm, oil on canvas

a new Bouguereau study - Amour a laffut

50x60cm, oil on canvas (I find that even this size is too small for a decent Bouguereau mastercopy).

more studies

Some of my recent charcoal sketches.

I've adjusted the face of Bouguereau's adorable little girl.

my latest Bouguereau study

Child at Bath - 40x50cm oil on canvas.