Sally's Grandkids

I told some of my friends that I would practice doing portraits using photos they gave me. One type of photo that I find particularly uninspiring is the typical "head shot" photo that you get from a photography place (like Sears). I tried to do something different with these "head shot" photos that my friend gave me by taping off an area of paper and just painting a closeup of part of the face. I think this is more interesting than the way I would have done the painting in the past, but I'm also thinking I should have put the boys closer together and maybe done something more with the frames around them. Here's my effort for now. This photo is rather dark, because it's too dismal to take a photo outside today.