Contemporary portrait

WORK IN PROGRESS - WIP

From this day forth to be known as WIP!

This can be applied to many, MANY things in my life - myself, my organizational skills, my computer and technology skills, my attempts at exercise regimes, my minutes, hours, days, weeks…my life in general and definitely my artwork.

In an attempt to get something posted in a timely manner about the evolution of a painting, (bearing in mind that I started and completed the painting “I Should Have Been More Specific” a few months ago) i.e. see above reference to technological skills)) I am going to attempt to post a few pictures of the evolution of a painting.

I wanted to do a painting that expressed clearing my mind of 26 years of artwork that I had done and liked but was not personal to me. I started with taking photos, (selfies-UGH) with different angles and expressions but the last photo was the one that worked for my idea, a look of surrender or giving in…to the whole universe perhaps.

…OK, I have been thwarted in my attempt to load the different stages of this painting so you will see the starting point here and the finished piece is in my personal work section!

I will post the different stages again on instagram @marlowemonfort

I will study on how to post multiple images here and it will be another WIP for my future artwork. Sigh…