Acrylic painting revisited

After spending most of this year using pastels or charcoal I was led by chance to reexamine paints. In my first post I attended a painting course to learn how to paint figures. Since then I have hardly painted because it is not a medium that took kindly to interruptions... With a young family interruptions are constant and results in either dried paints on palette or tantrums by various members of family (including husband)! I wanted to convert the charcoal drawing I did of Joanne to painting but without a reference photo or life model, I was forced to adopt a semi abstract style that would hide the lack of detail. I had always admired the style of painting where bold strokes are used, with the result that finer details are unnecessary. Of course a few highlights or reflections are added to give the impression that some care has been taken. Here is my attempt with this style.





I was pretty pleased with the results. Which is now leading me to experiment with a few other styles that I found in a figure painting workbook.