Oil portraits

Sanchita started oil painting again after a terribly long gap. When she started her studies at the LSE, an art collector who happened to be 90 years old told her that ‘some people are born with a paint brush in their hands and others are born with a pencil - you my dear were born with a pencil.’ She concluded from this that she couldn’t paint and didn’t touch oils for years. However, slowly but surely, she started to oil paint again learning from a book and looking at the great masters. These portraits are part of a series of portraits she worked on exploring a classical photo realist technique. Medium: Oil Paint / Size: 10x10 inches and 14x16 inches / Date: 2006 - 2009