Painting Before & After

First off I wanna give a shout out to all my homies all over the globe.

Wowsers. The response to the blog has been fanfreakintastic. Columbia, Turkey, Israel, New York, California, and all over the U.S.

To all the people in Columbia I say this: Coffee.....Good, Crazy trash talkin' dictator......not good. Hugo...buddy....nobody likes you...especially everyone in Venezuela. I guess Florida doesn't like you either since they just cancelled all of your CITGO contracts. Now, go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.

A big HELLO to all our photographer and painter colleagues who are reading this blog regularly.

And to anyone else I left out..........uhhh....hey.

I'm asked quite often about the paintings that I create. Here is a before and after of a cute little 4 week old baby boy. Lamb did the reference photo that I was to use for the painting. I say painting very loosely on this one, because the face and skin have very subtle paint strokes applied to it. This is a very early painting for me. Probably one of my first. Momma loved the angel baby idea and was very happy with this.

As you can see, it doesn't really matter what the background is in the reference photo. Momma was disappointed when baby fell asleep and asked "Does this mean we can't do the wing pictures?" But, as you can see, sleeping babies look really angelic.
-Brandon