On my Easel

This week I am working on a custom family portrait for a young couple who are expecting their second child. I am waiting to hear if it's a boy or girl before adding the finishing touches but here are a few pics. of the work in progress.
I've struggled with the Papa a bit... he keeps morphing into John Cusack, not a bad thing I guess, I think John Cusack is a cutie!





I've been working with acrylic on black gesso so much lately, it was a bit of a tricky transition back to gesso on paper.. I'm slowly getting back into the swing of it though. I'm not too sure I like the bushes as they are right now. I may finish the portraits and then go back into the back ground and simplify it a bit. I don't want all the viewers attention on the landscape.