
I love this painting of Christ, the original is done by Ted Henniger, an amazing painter by the way. It isn't in print anymore and I wanted to purchase it for my home decor, so instead I decided to recreate from a photo of the original. I took this as an opportunity to add more color and paint with my style of brushwork, putting a lot of palette knife work into the beard and highlights on the forehead. It took me about a week, a total of 24 hours. Definitely better than I expected.
This is the largest peice I have painted to date. It took a huge amount of work, more than anticipated. lol My focus is still figure, I set up the lighting myself and tried to draw the focus to her face. There's a whole array of colors in her face which I had tons of fun painting and trying to keep them in harmony with one another. I would've liked to see the backround painted a little more loosely and less glazing necessary, but it's coming along nicely.
My huge gap in postings is mostly due to marrying the perfect woman. :) This portrait study was going to be a full figure of the model in a pirate costume but the "likeness" of the model in my work has been lacking and I wanted to focus more on just the head for a time. It was a short session and I would've liked to have some more time to work on it, but que sera' sera'.