Description

I’ve been stealing photos again. This time I pinched them from my cousins facebook pages. I montaged different elements together to build a reference for this painting. The hands and the orange cocktail are from one photo, the man dancing in the background is from another and the face is from a photo I took of my niece. I made up the hair, fascinator and ribbon!

What story do you see in this painting?

It was worth going through the early agonising stages, just to develop the original subject matter and the composition. I reworked the painting at least four times – I just wasn’t satisfied with the results of trying to render it from my imagination.

Once I based the elements on reality, the painting came together easily.