April 8, 2010

Step 5 Finish

Here is the finished piece which is called, "Myron". He was easy for me to paint from the very beginning sketch because I have a tendency toward making things I paint more angular, and his features certainly were that! Womens soft facial lines always give me trouble however. That's why when I painted my wife-to-be years back, she hated it because she looked like a man!! That painting is now destroyed by the way. Looking at this piece now, I really should have done something more loose with the vignette edges. They really need softened, or um... vignetted more.

But maybe next time.