His-story
original watercolor portrait: 5"w x 7"h
His-tory
The model’s the art
From the pose at the start
To the last painted mark
And if you embark
On a portrait painting lark
His story you can tell
If you do your work well...
BB'10
Watercolors by Bertie Brown - Art is Instrumental
Lancaster, PA
info at: email
blog: http://watercolorsbybertiebrown.blogspot.com
3 comments:
Bertie, I was just looking at Karin Jurick's 100 Faces Challenge, where she is painting 100 4x4 portraits from mugshots of convicts around the country...so that may be influencing my perspective on your painting here - but my immediate thought was that this was a painting of a prisoner...such a sad, introspective look on his face...wishing he were home for Christmas instead of behind bars.
Just my impression!
I agree with Claire. He looks very sad. You've captured his mood perfectly!
It is nice to see you do a portrait in that lovely, loose style of yours. Lots of feeling in this one.
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