Resurrection Gallery 16-19

Considering I'm still rocking a flip phone it's seems odd that I'd be so selfie happy. I had one for a minute. "Pot Lid Selfie" is 8 x 12 inches in acrylic on plywood. It's black and white (ok, grey scale) except for some of my yellow layout pencil leakage on the stove top. I was tempted to de-saturate the picture but what tha hey. That should be the worst flaw.

"Surface Unit" is 6 x 8 inches in acrylic on plywood. It is another portrait that if I don't tell them they probably won't guess who it is. It wasn't working well I was about to re-prime the board till I thought "What about glasses?)
Huh, I meant to do that. Hey, boards I got.

"Hazmat Chicks" is 12 x 16 inches in acrylic on plywood. It is the fourth painting on this board. A couple of attempts at a soft focus portrait working from a badly focused photo, then on the third run at it boom there's Helen Mirren. Also not one I wanted to look at much, but during the knock down I started experimenting. Hey, it was already broken. I ended up with Eon Flux-Modigliani, hazmat Helen.

"Rockabilly Nell" is 6 x 8 inches in acrylic on plywood. This time I tried a portrait from a photo on Ancestry. The person in question had a beehive like hairdo but the high exposed forehead and baby face eluded me repeatedly. I'm not even sure how many times I re-primed the canvas board. I eventually wore a hole erasing on it before going small and switching to primed plywood. The board wasn't the only change. I found another picture of her in a formal, looking tall and straight. So I found a kinda rockabilly girl in leather whose beehive swooped across her forehead and blended them. I showed it to her , and she kept it!