Fading Tara

Fading Tara, 24x24, 2016

This piece started as a more traditional portrait I painted a few years back. I'm in the process of reworking many of my older portraits as experiments for a series I've been developing over the past years called, "Traces". This piece started as an oil sketch then was layered with colored waxes, some drawing, and a charcoal impression of an ancient Roman tombstone that I did a rubbing from at the American Academy in Rome. Lots of subtracting.