portrait of Chantelle

I was live painting at a nightclub last night called Ruin... I was thinking to paint the scene or I brought a photograph of elegant painter Chantelle Dinkel I was more excited to paint Chantelle so here's how that came out. The light in the nightclub was very dark and red and I really couldn't see the colors I was painting, only values. But that was a fun stumbling block and when I woke up today to see the painting in daylight, I was happily surprised and pleased... I read that William Turner was often in the practice of starting his paintings in almost total darkness, he probably felt the same abandon and excitement as I did! oil on canvas, 40 by 30 inches