New haircut

[Jean Kelly]

I'll finally be back to painting today after a long week of new grandson, Thanksgiving, wedding and birthday. It will be refreshing to escape to painting.

I'd like some advice on the skin tones for this child. The photos I have show him with orangish skin and I'd like to try to get away from the photo look if possible. Since I've never seen him in person I need to go by the pictures. I thought he was Hispanic, but he's actually a true multi-national child! African-american, Caucasion, and Hispanic.

I hope all tangents are taken care of at this point (or will be). Please disregard the lower hand as I'm still working on it. I also want to bring red into the painting and am thinking of changing pants to a deep alizarin crimson, and adding a crimson pattern to the tie.

Jean

First the painting: