David Bowie Smiling Painting

I like to make portraits which are stylistically cool, with an elegance, inspired by fashion, very modern, of the here and now. Bowie, was the epitome of cool, I feel, so he was an obvious choice to paint. He was a genius, probably because he was an artist foremost, as well as a musician, and his artistry underpinned all his music. He knew how to look good, and he knew how to evolve. He always looked good and this is what I was interested to capture. I didn’t want to paint him in one of his many guises, that seemed irrelevant, it was him as a real person, dressed in his familiar un-buttoned shirt and loose tie that sparked my imagination. His youth and beauty are depicted with a pale colour palette, soft touches of almost pastel versions of orange and purple hit against a contrasting and more fiercely painted darkened blue background. His eyes in their distinctive separate hues are positioned at maximum width, like in fashion illustration, to accentuate their elegance, over a high set of cheekbones. His hair fall’s softly around his eyes. Thin washes of paint are overlaid and unpainted areas left to form patterns.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15.7 W x 19.7 H x 1 D in

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