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Self-Portrait at Age 42: A Caravaggio Palette

This is a self-portrait that I did during the course Caravaggio Part I: Flesh Illuminated.  It centered on a palette made exclusively of the following Williamsburg paints: Canton Rose; Italian Lemon Ochre; Italian Black Roman Earth; …
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Cleopatra

  The time that passed from start to finish was almost a year, but the actual time it took to complete was about 5 sittings of two hours each, the last of which was just me before the mirror.
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Knight in an Evening Landscape

My second attempt at the National Portrait Gallery competition, which must have been for the 2012 competition.  Again rejected.  But in retrospect, not my best effort.  The portrait of my Dad is a much better painting. Here is…
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Copying Velázquez: Philip IV In Studio

Prior to traveling to the National Gallery in London to copy the painting in real life, I did a copy of it from a photograph.  Needless to say, I found the colors to be greatly different once I had the real thing in front of me. &nb…