Today I finished "Blackberry Yoga Man". This was a challenging painting for lots of reasons.
Firstly it was a struggle to get a facial likeness. Sometime I can capture a subject fairly well and other times it seems to allude me. However I did finally capture some of this model's unique look and expression...
The background is abstract with shapes and colors that seemed to flow out of this strengthening pose as well as reflecting the blackberries, sweet but very prickly. It seems in this town we are surrounded by huge mounds of blackberries at this time of year. Also I was working towards a masculine energy in this painting... a feeling of strength and power, yet the gentleness of the model shines through.
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