My Dad

I recently went to see the David Hockney exhibit at LACMA  “82 portraits and 1 still life” and was inspired by the bright colors and intrigued by his use of acrylics.  Acrylics are much harder to blend and I much prefer oils when painting figures.   For Hockney’s paintings he painted from life a total of 22 hours per portrait.  I painted from a photo and completed in 6.

This is a picture of my Dad on his 80th birthday.  You can tell it’s him because of the pen in his pocket.