Portrait Painting : Bouguereau Master Copy " The Prayer" Painted In Selective Start

Welcome to Part 2 of the Master Copy of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s “The Prayer.“ Today we will prepare the oil painting palette then move into painting following the Selective Start method. You can paint along! Get the reference for free at We will be zooming in on the face. I just love the expression. LINK: In the last Bouguereau master copy, I painted a monochrome under-painting first. Today I want to see how well I can paint a master copy following the Selective Start method. Also we will learn to mix classical skin tones like those painted by the masters. In part 1, we analyzed the skin tones painted by Bouguereau using Photoshop. We will be referring to that image while mixing the skin tones for our palette. Have you ever been working on a painting and something just seems off but you can’t put your finger on it? Well I have a 6 question