Showing posts with label gauguin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gauguin. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

The Dark Side

















The dark side, as in, I've gone over. I am now officially fully immersed in working from photos, and thoroughly enjoying it. (Sing: If loving this is wrong, I don't wanna be right...)

This portrait is of my cousin, how he looks now. Hmmmm. The eyes are too close together. When I do these portraits I see other family members' faces emerge at different times. I see my father and my brothers in this one. I felt like I was channeling Van Gogh and Gauguin while working on this drawing. I'm not done - I see things I need to change. It's so stylized, I just don't know...
I believe I'll give it a rest and go have a cup of tea in the sun...