Étude de « philosophe » - Study of “philosopher”

 This was made a practice for a painting I’ve yet to finish as of the day I’m writing this. The study went well and I proceeded to the next part of the project. It’s inspired by archetypes, which I wanted to paint, starting with this one. I borrowed one of my friend’s photos, with permission, and picked amongst them to find a suitable image to then work on. I had to practice to see if I could do a decent painting with the image first without working on the composition, as the photo was pretty challenging lighting-wise. I feel like this was pretty successful and so I shared it, and now share it to you. It was done with oil paints on an oil primed aluminium panel of 12 inches by 16 inches.