Matisse!

This week in painting class my teacher picked out a painting for me to copy.  We had decided on a face with Impressionist colours as good practice before the next two classes when we will have a model.  He chose a Matisse portrait of an other painter, Andre Derain, which was painted in 1905.  The Matisse was done in oil but otherwise is pretty much identical to mine -- apart from the fact (which my teacher pointed out) that Matisse wouldn't have painted on cardboard!