Dirty Brushes

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Santa painting

Monday, November 30, 2015

The Christmas is coming, so I've decided to paint one of the symbols of this magical day - the pleasant bearded man. 
The painting looks so different on different monitors *sighs*, it's impossible to make it look as it is in real life.


The reference photo is by Skydancer-stock from DeviantArt. 

I was inspired by this portrait of Pavel Chistyakov by V. Savinskiy. The idea was to create a contrast between realistically rendered head (and hand) and everything else.


Here is my favorite part of the painting:



I've posted stages of the process on my Instagram:

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