Latest Portrait in Progress - Visions of Gpa

In a recent edition of Contemporary Art magazine, I saw a painting of an elderly grey haired man leaning up against a wall facing the sunlight and I had to do a double take.  I held up the picture to my boyfriend who exclaimed "holy shit!!".  It was a near identical replica of my grandfather.  Immediately, I knew what my next class painting was going to be working off of....   Below are the beginning stages of the painting.  Will continue to post further progress as it happens, but being my first portrait piece I'm pretty happy with it so far! :-)