Suspenders

This painting began with a photo of the model while at the pastel convention in Alburqueque a few years back. The man in the supenders is actually Albert Handell, a very well known pastel artist, and he was watching a demo at the time I took this photo.

The background was a painting showing in the Blanton Museum last week, and I connected the imagery with the mode'ls red suspenders. Trapeze artist, red suspenders, get it?

I took step by step photos of this painting, I hope you get some idea of how I work on this velour paper and I hope this does not become too intrusive in your mail box if you subscribe to my blog, my apologies in advance if it is.