Made Madd

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The Brindle

Henry May 14, 2010 Henry, Illustration, Visual Art

So I don’t know which way it happened, maybe Nicola asked for a painting or I offered to do one for her birthday which was a good month or so ago. Anyways, the idea was to do a portrait and after a some vigorous browsing on Facebook I found the photo below. But I didn’t really want to paint it like for like so I wanted to experiment with it. I basically tried to emulate certain aspects of the Skinny Man I did a while back. It’s probably not the most flattering portrait but I guess my two reassurances are that I barely draw/paint girls and, to be fair, this doesn’t really look a whole lot like Nicola. So the mediums used are a little bit of a fine liner, pencils and oils on a primed piece of wood. To be honest, I don’t know if this works. Part of me feels like I should work on the face a bit more so I may claim it back sometime to work on it again. But for now, it’s done and dusted so there you go.