Portrait #1 (or how it all began)

One day, about a year and a half ago, I got a strong and sudden desire to paint so I went to the little bookshop in our town and bought a starter set of acrylic paint and brushes. One of my attributes (that I am not very proud of, but am working on to improve), is that I love starting up projects that unfortunately ends up only half finished because I loose interest so quickly. Which is why this painting that I really, really wanted to do still took me a whole year to complete.

Me and my boyfriend started dating about the end of that year, and when he saw my painting he got a little curious and asked me to do a portrait of his son. I thougt Why the hell not?, and that is the beginning of the story.

This is my Portrait #1. It is painted with black and white acrylic paint on what I think is a L15-sized canvas. The name of the adorable boy with the ingenious smile is Hampus.

♥ Ela