Hi Guys,
maybe you've noticed that I was absent for a while. I
had a lot to do, going back and forth to the unemployment office,
completing several commissions one of which is on the cover of the next
issue of Painter Magazine (#29). Also networking with people like
photographers who are willing to work to gether with me etc etc etc. So
finally I had some time for some free work and found this wonderful
portrait of this vietnamese old man with such charater that I just had
to paint him, all those nice wrinkles in his face, just perfect. But
somehow the original photo was a bit to static, I really wanted to
viewer to have this feeling of him coming to live in this painting. So
I played around with the fact that he had a sigaret in his mouth and by
adding smoke to the painting he really came to live as he just blew out
some smoke through is nostrels. Hope you like it 
Odwin
Follow url for a larger version : http://tiny.cc/IBLQ0
