Today’s post is a impressionist portrait study. The Obama image is one I painted a while ago and I’ve been wanting to do a similar portrait ever since but wasn’t sure who to paint. With recent political events I decided a version of Putin would make a good counter point to the image. I think the image came out very well, though in hindsight I wish I had painted him straight on or Obama at 3/4 to make the images go together more.
