After drying for about 6 months, I applied a matte finish on this, and now finally got it framed after several delays. The nice part in oil painting is that it's not a hurried pursuit.
Here's a closer shot from when the painting was finished + progress: https://art.plantmonster.net/pieces/123.html
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I do drawing and oil paints for practice, and asked around my family if someone wanted portraits since I'm doing them anyway and might as well paint family. This is a relative who likes to do speeches. There was a low resolution photo of one of the speeches lying around, so I decided to paint from that. The painting will be delivered for the person's birthday soon.
That’s amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. Thats so cool they like to do speeches. My partner and I are like, “oooh I wonder what kind of speeches they do?” Thank you again for sharing the painting and the information.