This is my little journey down trying to extend a story. In my case, Alfonso Giraldes wonderful Gladiator painted earlier this year (https://www.puttyandpaint.com/projects/20149). I saw Alfonso's as a rough concept he was using as a demonstration in Augsburg earlier in the year. He told a story of painting a gladiator emerging from the darkness into the sun of the colosseum. So I wanted to paint the gladiator's adversary. This was a fun way of using someone else's concept to extend the story and build upon it. There's a lot of skin on this bust so I wanted to give him a bronzed Polynesian aesthetic. I chose Dwayne Johnson/The Rock as my muse.
Now I am at the end I kind of wish I knew what I was doing with NMM! I have done NNMM again. This is an area I have to work on. Everything else I think I did pretty well on.
A wonderful piece, Richard. The tattoo is just too crazy. I love the inspiration why you tackled him in that way. A great study in ambience and connecting to Alfonso's work.
Bran
I love your job simply ..... Is just perfect !!eric wolfsPLUS
Great painting. It's just incredible.Roman LappatPLUS
A wonderful piece, Richard. The tattoo is just too crazy. I love the inspiration why you tackled him in that way. A great study in ambience and connecting to Alfonso's work.Clive Jackson
Fantastic job! The tattoo is amazing! Gold of course!Sergey Savenkov
Gold!David Batista
Oro sin duda amigo."SCV Park" Yeong Min
Fantastic~!! very good~!Mariano del Olmo
Gold. Perfect use of NMM and great flesh as well. Best,Melnikov Ivan "Nakatan"
awesome tattoo gold