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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Mr T: Semi Final

Mr. T is giving me heart burn, well not really, but it is fun to say so. I have repainted his bow tie five times now, this may be the sixth, and I am still not happy with it. However, I have decided to leave it for the time being, and so I bring you Mr. T's semi-final image:



After painting the circle around Mr. T my first thought was, "Why, hello Mr. Rockwell."

Growing up I loved Norman Rockwell's paintings. My grandfather read the Saturday Evening Post and kept a solid amount of them with Rockwell's covers. Even now I think that Rockwell is really great, and I guess that it must be the circular motif that reminds me of him (Rockwell used circles a lot, especially for the Post covers). There are worse things for sure. Here is the complete progress for Mr. T:


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