I have pastel portraits but this is my first oil portrait that has pleased me. Did you scroll down on my webpage? There is a couple of people pastels at the bottom. I never actually finished the background on the boy, and the other two were done as Christmas cards. It's been a little over a year since I decided that oil is the way to go, and I have been struggling to make it work for me ever since. The material on my webpage is from "before" I started the "oil" quest. There is a pastel portrait on Wet Canvas that I posted last December. I believe that you could do a search over there and find it.
I'm hoping that this one will be the first of many.
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