After doing five “large” paintings (I’m not posting everything) I decided I wanted to try smaller paintings. I had an idea to do a series of portraits of certain people who’d figured heavily into my life. I intended to do enough to cover an entire wall (with 9″x9″s). I only ended up finishing eight before I moved on to the car seat painting I posted on August 30th. I may come back to this project in the future, but I have too many crazy ideas to work on for the time being.
This one wasn’t the first of the series, but I moved it up since this guy happens to have his birthday today. Happy birthday, Buddy!
I struggled a lot with the end of this one. I had no idea how to paint stubble onto someone. I bought small brushes and did tests with fine tipped sharpies etc. etc. … nothing seemed to work right, but it could have come out worse.
