Michael

Michael

2016

24" x 18"

Oil on  hardwood Panel

Poor Michael suffered being the first person in my continuing attempts with oil portraits. He remained good natured about it and very kind.

I shot some more casual photographs of him recently and later realized that I had a couple that could be used to set up a portrait.

The background is greyed from light yellow into violet on the right side.

I tried to feature his long, rather elegant fingers without making them dominant

I also took the liberty of adding a more lively pocket handkerchief to his suit

The dark glasses seemed to work well

It's nice to be related to such a handsome guy.

The picture above was taken after I reworked the hands.